In his book "Antifragile" Nassim Taleb has a long rant about "teaching birds to fly" and the fact that practice usually precedes theory rather than deriving fro

In his book "Antifragile" Nassim Taleb has a long rant about "teaching birds to fly" and the fact that practice usually precedes theory rather than deriving from it. He mentions jet engines as a case where the technology developed without any theory of how it worked...