Karl Terzaghi

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• The average engineer does not see things as they are. He sees them as they should be according to what he has read in textbooks and heard in the classroom. He is an artisan and not an artist. Science is produced by artists and used by artisans. (查看原文)

  ak650 1赞 2012-05-10 04:14:17

• Soil mechanics had arrived at the borderline between science and art. I use the term 'art' to indicate mental processes leading to satisfactoy results without the assistance of step-for-step logical reasoning... To acquire competence in the field of earthwork engineering one must live with the soil. One must love it and oberve its performance not only in the laboratory but also in the field, to become familiar with those of its manifold properties that are not disclosed by boring records... Examining the array of useful knowledge which has filtered into my own system and crystallized into sound judgement, I find that it contains one ounce of geology for every pound of theory of structure and soil mechanics. (查看原文)

  ak650 2012-10-28 22:27:39

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