Metallurgy Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Metallurgy.
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“Engineering”
“History of science”
“History of technology”
“History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent”
“Wikipedia: Metallurgy”
“MMSA Mining & Metallurgical Society of America”
“SME Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration”
“The history of utopias is no less fascinating than the history of metallurgy or of chemical engineering.”
“Wikicommons: Metallurgy”
“Ramsey: At the Naval War College it was metallurgy and nuclear reactors, not 19th-century philosophy.”
“As the silversmith removes
Impurities from silver
So the wise man from himself
One by one, little by little, again and again”
“Wikiversity: Portal:Metallurgical engineering”
“Peter Venkman: Ray, for a moment, pretend that I don't know anything about metallurgy, engineering, or physics, and just tell me what the hell is going on.”
“[T]he ancients... had a sort of practical or technical chemistry. In certain branches of metallurgy, in glass-making, dyeing, and tanning, they attained decided proficiency.”
“It was comparatively late in the metallurgical history of copper that bronze was produced by knowingly adding tin to the metal.”
“The swords made in India were prized all over the world. The sword of Tipu Sultan is almost a legend. These facts have rarely been mentioned or brought to the notice in the publications on history of metallurgy...”
“The only processes which can be called chemical, known to the civilized nations of antiquity, belonged to certain arts, such as metallurgy, dyeing, and the manufacture of glass or porcelain; but these processes appear to have been independent of each other, pursued in the workshop alone, and unconnected with general knowledge.”
“There are only two ores of tin: the peroxide, tin-stone, or Cassiterite; and tin pyrites, sulphide of tin, or Stannine: the former of which alone has been found in sufficient abundance for metallurgical purposes.”
“At the present time administration is more an art than a science; in fact there are those who assert dogmatically that it can never be anything else. They draw no hope from the fact that metallurgy, for example, was completely an art several centuries before it became primarily a science and commenced its great forward strides after generations of intermittent advance and decline.”