“I need to discuss science vs. engineering. Put glibly:
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."
― Richard Hamming, "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn" (1997)
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