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Eh, I think it's simpler than that: Scientist: Unknown outcome (e.g. hypothesis -> experimentation) Engineer: Known (or should be) outcome
by _dark_matter_ 10y ago
Eh, I think it's simpler than that:
Scientist: Unknown outcome (e.g. hypothesis -> experimentation)
Engineer: Known (or should be) outcome
- forgotpwagain 10y agoThere's also experimentation to generate hypotheses. I.e., let's sequence the genomes of healthy people and the genomes of people with some disease and see if there is a difference. It's possible to argue that the implicit hypothesis there is that there is some sort of difference, but that is a particularly weak hypothesis compared to the specificity of hypotheses that can be formed once we have this pile of data -- i.e maybe X, Y, Z differences are important in this disease.
- jsrjenkins 10y agoAristotle put it this way: Science is the knowing of things by their causes. Science is the putting into knowledge what is in reality. Engineering [which he would call techne, from which we get the word 'technology'] is the art of putting ideas into reality. It is putting what is in our knowledge into the real world. Thus they are perfectly complementary things, one bringing the world into ideas, the other ideas into the world.
- a-priori 10y ago"In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see the pure state." - Richard Hamming