/sci/ - Science & Math

>>1911960
If we look at the fiction up to the early years of the 20th century:

In H.G. Well's "Food of the Gods", a couple of misguided scientists develop a miracle food - Herakleophorbia - and proceed to scatter it around the countryside with wild abandon. Diasterous consequences ensue until Cotter, a sensible and courageous engineering, steps in to save the country. In "20,000 Leagues below the Sea", Jules Verne's Captain Nemo takes pride in pointing out that the Nautilus draws on no new science, only the engineering application of what is already known.

Then in 1945 it became clear that science could do something useful. It could win wars.

Werner von Braun, when brought over from Nazi Germany to assist in the United State's space program, told his subordinates, "Don't call yourselves engineers; say you're scientists and they'll give you anything you want."

tldr engineers rule the world