''Apply Science when appropriate''. Everything about engineering is about ''rules of thumb''. It's mistakenly called ''Applied Science''. But Engineers have to do things that science knows nothing about, all of the time. This line about Engineering and Heuristics (Rule of Thumb) says it best: Apply Science when appropriate. Yes, sometimes there's just no time to use Science and you just have to use what works at that time. -Ken, who is starting to understand a point of view he knew nothing about before.