When I was an engineering student, during the 1960s, a common joke was that if a space rocket reached its goal, it was called a success of science; but if it did not succeed, then it was a failure of engineering. This witticism is a sample of the latent dispute between science and engineering. Science has played a fundamental role in the development of modern engineering by showing how the natural world behaves, but this does not mean that engineering lacks strong autonomous and original features, and the field can be reduced to a mere corollary of science. In fact, technology, and its most elaborate form, engineering, appeared many millennia before science did. In this article, the question of the relationship between engineering and science is discussed, and contributions from some new points of view are made.

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工程与科学之间

1960 年代，当我还是一名工科学生时，一个常见的笑话是，如果太空火箭达到了目标，则称为科学的成功；但如果没有成功，那就是工程失败。这种俏皮话是科学与工程之间潜在争议的一个例子。科学通过展示自然世界的行为方式在现代工程的发展中发挥了基础性作用，但这并不意味着工程缺乏强大的自主性和原创性，该领域可以简化为仅仅是科学的必然结果。事实上，技术及其最复杂的形式——工程，比科学早了几千年出现。在本文中，讨论了工程与科学之间的关系问题，并从一些新的角度做出了贡献。