胡适曾经写过一篇专谈工程师的哲学和人生观的文章,题目就很有趣:《捶煮自然的灵物》。这意思也很清楚,工程师是人中之“灵”,他能够既“捶”又“煮”大自然,也就是说他能够对大自然进行加工。他在文中详细发挥时说: 什么叫做工程师呢?工程师的作用,在能够找出自然界的利益,强迫自然界把它的利益一个一个贡献出来;就是改造自然、征服自然、控制自然,以减除人的痛苦,增加人的幸福。这是工程师哲学的简单说法。 Hu Shih once wrote an essay on engineers' philosophy and outlook on life. The topic is very interesting: “Cooking the natural spiritual things.” The meaning is also very clear. Engineers are the “spirit” of man. He can “hammer” and “cook” nature, which means he can process nature. When he played in detail in the article, he said: What is an engineer? The role of an engineer is to find out the benefits of nature and to force nature to contribute its interests one by one. It is to transform nature, conquer nature, control nature, The pain, increase people's happiness. This is a simple statement of engineer philosophy.