> A scientist can create a new measure or a new tool.
Don't you mean, engineer a new tool :P
A Scientist is someone who accrues knowledge using the scientific method, that's it! Do you hypothesize, test and measure? Well then congrats, you're a scientist! All other distinctions are semantic and egotistically driven and unscientific.
That's a good point and reminds of a professor I had in grad school. I remember having this discussion with him over beers once and while he could explain how any algorithm worked (or figure out how to explain), he didn't really care. What got him excited was taking all these low level pieces and using them to build things that never existed before and solving higher order problems.
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The scientist describes what is; the engineer creates what never was. -- Tódor Kármán, founding director of JPL
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I'm not sure I completely agree. A scientist can create a new measure or a new tool. I would express it as:
Then again, I am a scientist...> A scientist can create a new measure or a new tool.
Don't you mean, engineer a new tool :P
A Scientist is someone who accrues knowledge using the scientific method, that's it! Do you hypothesize, test and measure? Well then congrats, you're a scientist! All other distinctions are semantic and egotistically driven and unscientific.
That's a good point and reminds of a professor I had in grad school. I remember having this discussion with him over beers once and while he could explain how any algorithm worked (or figure out how to explain), he didn't really care. What got him excited was taking all these low level pieces and using them to build things that never existed before and solving higher order problems.
I think that's a great way of putting it, though I don't think someone like Einstein would agree.
The truth is that labels don't really matter. We call ourselves hackers. Some would disagree. It is what it is.