John B. Jervis Professions : Civil engineerBorn : December 14, 1795Died : January 12, 1885 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by John B. Jervis No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything. John B. Jervis hard-workscienceknowledge The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing. John B. Jervis importantdoescience No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet. John B. Jervis preserveswar Similar Authors Arthur M. Wellington civil-engineer Arthur Alfred Lynch civil-engineer Bernard Lietaer civil-engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel civil-engineer Henry Petroski civil-engineer Gustave Eiffel civil-engineerAll Authors
