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 Bloomfield Jervis

John Bloomfield Jervis Advice Assumption Engineer Knowledge Reflection Understanding

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 Bloomfield Jervis

John Bloomfield Jervis Importance Management Railroad Railway