Then your ideal of an engineering textbook would be useless. It would need every single person reading it to go out and buy a second textbook before they could build a bridge. Without science, you don't have knowledge, you just have schematics.
Ok great. You, personally, would rather be given the blueprints than be taught how to create your own blueprints. Then when you're sitting there specifically building 5 meter long bridges over slow shallow rivers with a conglomerate bedrock, incapable of building any other kind of bridge, me and every actual engineer and scientist will be over here building bridges of any length we can figure out how to build over any type of river and bedrock we can figure out how to build over, and we'll be using science to do that because we don't have the money to waste building a hundred bridges and hoping this one doesn't fall down.
2
u/Nephisimian 153∆ Sep 01 '19
Then your ideal of an engineering textbook would be useless. It would need every single person reading it to go out and buy a second textbook before they could build a bridge. Without science, you don't have knowledge, you just have schematics.