Thinkers and Doers

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant Scientists investigate that which already exists; Engineers create that which has never existed. Theodore von Karman The technologist is different from other people in that he does not accept what is given but wants to find out for himself how things can be done better. W. Edwards Deming A flying city spaceship in the style of James Gurney, by midjourney I. There are thinkers and there are doers. Oftentimes the thinkers do things, and doers have to think about what they’re doing. But the distinction is helpful, as dichotomies so often are, to illustrate something fundamental about the way we approach the world. One place we see this is where there is a ton of conversation around the difference between science and technology. We try to draw arbitrary distinctions and relationships amongst them to justify what creates what. Did the creation of tooling enable the development of science through better measur ... Read full article.