[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence. — Carl Mitcham Copy Share Image
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that. — Jeremiah P. Ostriker Copy Share Image
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