Science moves forwards when someone questions their beliefs, their assumptions. Careful scientists use words like 'theory' or 'model' instead of 'law' because they know that science comes up with better and better descriptions of reality, but never any unshakable truths.
Science geeks usually get frustrated at us engineers, because we take their 'laws' and slice and dice and approximate and divide by zero and generally muck up the elegance of everything they stand for, but in the end we spit out a car or a cellphone or an MRI machine and they're happy :)
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Science moves forwards when someone questions their beliefs, their assumptions. Careful scientists use words like 'theory' or 'model' instead of 'law' because they know that science comes up with better and better descriptions of reality, but never any unshakable truths.
Science geeks usually get frustrated at us engineers, because we take their 'laws' and slice and dice and approximate and divide by zero and generally muck up the elegance of everything they stand for, but in the end we spit out a car or a cellphone or an MRI machine and they're happy :)
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