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!"
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
-- G.B.S.
This is our monthly thread for collecting these little gems and pearls of wisdom, rationality-related quotes you've seen recently, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages, and which might be handy to link to in one of our discussions.