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Would you say that this encompasses the goals or motivations

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Science - Exploration & Discovery
>"We need more details. We don't know enough about it."

Engineering - Optimization & Innovation
>"It's not good enough. We need to make it better."
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>>7756661
No.
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>>7756667
but you're a cuck so what you say is irrelevant tbqh

>just say i'm correct
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>>7756675
>No.
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>>7756661
>Philosophy

Absolute truth

>Science

Useful "truth"

>Engineering

Useful shit
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>>7756661
Engineering: "If you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't be doing it"
Science: "If you know what you're doing, you shouldn't be doing it"

~Richard Hamming
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>>7756688
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>>7756698
It's a cool graphic but I don't really understand the authors reasoning.
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>>7756692
oh fuck you i'm the one that posts hamming quotes asshole

btw

"If what you are doing is not important and it's not likely to lead to important things, why are you working on it?"
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>>7756708
engineers actually do work and give results and the rest of you faggots masturbate, basically.
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>>7756688
if by shit, you just mean technology, then yeah.
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>>7756713
Yeah you're not wrong. But thanks to scientists and the engineers who apply the science, society can afford to have some portion of it's population concern itself with non-utilitarian tasks such as entertainment or philosophy.

So thanks!
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>>7756685
OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT THAT'S IT
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>>7756718
>anon posts anti-/sci/ related comment on /sci/
neat
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