The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote - Bertrand Russell History of Western Philosophy. Quoted in George Street. The well being of the world largely depends upon the work of the engineer.
Imagination is necessary as well as scientific knowledge.
The words art, artisan, and artificial all come from the Latin word ars, and reinforce the notion that beauty and utility have been inextricably linked. The jazz musician Duke Ellington is believed to have said that if any music sounds good, it is good. There are three possible roads to ruin - women, gambling and technology. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technology. There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation.