Toadfish Monastery

Science started as natural philosophy and then got practical

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I imagine that is the reason why theoretical scientists despise engineers.

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You can earn a lot more as an engineer than a physicist.

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I don't think the money is a big factor.

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I tend to agree - engineeers are merely, well, engineers.

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Paraphrasing The Life of Bryan:

What have the engineers done for us lately? Apart from building our infrastructure, designing the planes, cars, trains, boats, phones, computers, toys, houses, roads...

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We'd probably not have taken even the step into the caves in the first place.

The Greeks did the thinking, the Romans applied it.

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You are missing the point. Which is that physicists*** are always going to be superioir, though choosing between theoretical and experimental is almost impossible.

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***otherwise, if they are not, why do I always say "but he used to be a physicist" when telling people my son is an "engineer"?

But physicians treat both as lower lifeforms

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As demigods tend to do

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Are demigods superior to physicians?

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They are usually considered one and the same (by themselves)

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Lets sacrifice the demigods in their own altars.

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It was the only choice Herakles had left

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