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Aristotle put it this way:

Science is the knowing of things by their causes. Science is the putting into knowledge what is in reality.

Engineering [which he would call techne, from which we get the word 'technology'] is the art of putting ideas into reality. It is putting what is in our knowledge into the real world.

Thus they are perfectly complementary things, one bringing the world into ideas, the other ideas into the world.



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