Source: cirosantilli/science-is-the-reverse-engineering-of-nature

= Science is the reverse engineering of nature
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How <software engineer>[software engineers] view science:
> Science is the <reverse engineering> of nature.

<Ciro Santilli> had once assigned this as one of <Ciro Santilli's best random thoughts>, but he later found that <Wikipedia> actually says exactly that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering ("similar to scientific research, the only difference being that scientific research is about a natural phenomenon") so maybe that is where Ciro picked it up unconsciously in the first place.