Isambard Kingdom Brunel

“The atmospheric system is, I think, a great fallacy.”

“I look upon the broad gauge as a great mechanical improvement.”

“In a work of this kind, failures are to be expected; it is by profiting by them that we advance.”

“I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.”

“I wish to be an engineer.”