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So this maybe kills the joke, which made me laugh. In my personal experience, most engineers are part scientists, and scientists who study engineering are part engineers. I can say that at least a small handful of the scientists I've met who study engineering may not really understand why engineers use a specific safety margin for a specific purpose, they understand practically that it's because no one wants to come close to a things tolerance. Especially when public safety is concerned.

It's a joke though. It's hyperbole, and I thought it was funny.

If they did, they wouldn't need engineers.

But it's more of a division of labor I think.

It is the job of the scientist to discover a new idea. It is the job of an engineer to kill enough people to make the idea just safe enough to turn loose on the public.

Remember kiddies, scientific principles are written in ink. Engineering principles are very often written in blood.