ZhurnalyWiki: EngineeringVersusScience

Like chess versus checkers:

engineering is a collection of literally millions of ideas and practical principles, rules and their exceptions --- a constant gathering of facts and their interrelationships ...
science, in contrast, is relentless reductionism --- a ceaseless quest to collapse the complexity of the universe into an ever-smaller set of laws ...

(see also GreatIdeas (3 May 1999), No Concepts At All (22 Feb 2001), ...)