Frases de Ralph Brazelton Peck

Ralph Brazelton Peck foi um engenheiro canadense naturalizado estadunidense.

Um dos grandes nomes da área da engenharia geotécnica, Peck é conhecido principalmente por sua parceria com Karl von Terzaghi, conhecido como o "pai da mecânica dos solos e da engenharia geotécnica", a qual contribuiu para o desenvolvimento do livro Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice, largamente o livro mais conhecido de sua área, sendo traduzido para mais de dezessete línguas. Wikipedia

✵ 23. Junho 1912 – 18. Fevereiro 2008

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Ralph Brazelton Peck: Frases em inglês

“If you can’t reduce a difficult engineering problem to just one 8-1/2 x 11-inch sheet of paper, you will probably never understand it.”

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Ralph Brazelton Peck

as quoted by [John Dunnicliff and Nancy Peck Young, Ralph B. Peck, Educator and Engineer - The Essence of the Man, BiTech Publishers Ltd, Vancouver, 2007, 0-921095-63-5, 114]

“The most fruitful research grows out of practical problems.”

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as taken by Professor Ralph Peck's Legacy Website http://peck.geoengineer.org/words.html#

“Simple calculations based on a range of variables are better than elaborate ones based on limited input.”

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as taken by Professor Ralph Peck's Legacy Website http://peck.geoengineer.org/words.html#

“Indeed, in my judgment, the simplest measurements are always the best because they have the least possibility for error and the greatest likelihood of survival.”

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as taken by Professor Ralph Peck's Legacy Website http://peck.geoengineer.org/words.html#