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Re:Science vs. Engineering by pluma on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:14AM (#9877613)
Science is descriptive, engineering is prescriptive.

More verbosely: Science is about creating knowledge about out how things work, engineering is applying knowledge to make things work.

Engineering is how you build a bridge. Science is how you find out how to tell whether that bridge will hold.

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