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"Sanity is conforming your thoughts to reality. Conforming reality to your thoughts is creativity."
-- Unknown
I would prefer to say that conforming your thoughts to reality is science, and conforming reality to your thoughts is engineering...
Putting those together, science is sanity and engineering is creativity. Or to merge this with an aphorism of George Bernard Shaw, science sees things and asks "why?", and engineering dreams things that never were and asks "why not!"
-- G.B.S.
Meanwhile I would want to employ a creative scientist but a sane engineer. Perhaps it is a matter of balance...
Have you noticed how many G.B.S. quotes are in the top quotes list?