A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.
Hedonic Engineering — The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?
My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.
To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.