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What do you study in engineering, science and liberal arts?

The purpose of liberal arts is to describe the world. For example, when the sun rises, the sun sets, and the grass grows and the warblers fly, people can't help but describe it in beautiful artistic forms. But why the world is like this, liberal arts don't care. Liberal arts is the primary form of human thinking. Any nation, developed or backward, can have its own literature and art-even primitive people have rock paintings. Liberal arts is more suitable for people with keen observation and delicate feelings.

The purpose of science is to understand the world. Just like Newton and others saw the sun, the moon and the stars, what they thought was not how beautiful they were, but why they were there and why they didn't fall. From the galactic universe to atomic quarks, science must find out why. Science comes into being with the further development of human beings and is the foundation of engineering. Suitable for people who are curious and like to get to the bottom of it.

The purpose of the project is to transform the world. It is not enough to understand the world, but also to transform it. The purpose of engineering is to create on the basis of science, such as turning the written law of gravity into the actual Apollo landing on the moon, and turning Boolean algebra and Turing machine into computers on everyone's desk. This is a higher form of the development of human thinking activities, and the strength of the project can measure the strength of a country. Engineering is more suitable for people with creative desire and strong practical ability.

These three subjects are all important, but it is often difficult to communicate with each other. Liberal arts like to pretend to be lofty, but others say they are "useless people"; Science students feel that they are answering the truth of the world and are easily accused of being divorced from reality; Engineering students feel that they are creating the world, and sometimes they are accused of "poor theoretical foundation and only doing it."