Somewhere in his book Thomas Kuhn equates science as being a field that makes progress in understanding it’s problem domain. If someone manages to learn knowledge to build better aqueducts than could be build in the past, he’s therefore engaging in science.
It would help a lot to start with a definition of the terms
scienceandengineeringbefore talking about the relationship between them.Do you have an example where it would make a difference?
Somewhere in his book Thomas Kuhn equates science as being a field that makes progress in understanding it’s problem domain. If someone manages to learn knowledge to build better aqueducts than could be build in the past, he’s therefore engaging in science.
The relevant distinction:
science is about accumulating (edit: and systematizing) knowledge;
engineering is about building things, possibly but not necessarily using the knowledge accumulated by science.
Then the accumlation of knowledge that a YCombinator startup does when it goes out and interviews users of their product is science?
Possibly, I suppose that depends on how one would classify the “butterfly-collecting” aspect of science.