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Very true but the post makes a more subtle point: you don't have to have a model that explains everything as long as your model is predictive for the problem you're trying to solve. You can build a good telescope without understanding quantum mechanics. I guess that's the difference between science and engineering, broadly speaking.


> I guess that's the difference between science and engineering, broadly speaking.

Science also doesn't need to have a model that explains everything. Because if it did, we wouldn't have science.




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