The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why
does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks,
"How does it work?"
The graduate with an Economics degree asks, "How
much will it cost?"
The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks,
"Would you like fries with
that?"
Engineers think that equations approximate the
real world.
Scientists think that the real world approximates
equations.
Mathematicians are unable to make the connection.
A Mathematician, a Biologist and a Physicist are
sitting in a street cafe
watching people going in and coming out of the
house on the other side of
the street. First they see two people going into
the house. Time
passes... After a while they notice three persons
coming out of the
house.
The Physicist: "The measurement wasn't accurate".
The Biologist's conclusion: "They have reproduced".
The Mathematician: "If now exactly 1 person enters
the house then it will
be empty again."
An Engineer, a Physicist, and a Mathematician
are shown a pasture with a
herd of sheep, and told to put them inside the
smallest possible amount
of fence.
The Engineer is first. She herds the sheep into
a circle and then puts
the fence around them, declaring, "A circle will
use the least fence for
a given area, so this is the best solution."
The Physicist is next. She creates a circular
fence of infinite radius
around the sheep, and then draws the fence tight
around the herd,
declaring, "This will give the smallest circular
fence around the herd."
The Mathematician is last. After giving the problem
a little thought, she
puts a small fence around herself and then declares,
"I define myself to
be on the outside!"
In some foreign country a Priest, a Lawyer and
an Engineer are about to
be guillotined. The Priest puts his head on the
block, they pull the rope
and nothing happens -- he declares that he's
been saved by divine
intervention -- so he's let go. The Lawyer is
put on the block, and again
the rope doesn't release the blade, he claims
he can't be executed twice
for the same crime and he too, is set free. They
grab the
Engineer and shove her head into the guillotine,
she looks up at the
release mechanism and says, "Wait a minute, I
see your problem..."