Vaniver comments on Confusion about science and technology - Less Wrong Discussion
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A core difference between scientists and engineers is that engineers only need one working prototype to validate a design, and scientists only need one strong counterexample to invalidate a hypothesis.
(Note that some fields where practitioners call themselves scientists but operate much more like engineers, with 'studies' as prototypes.)