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[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Ask a ~~physician~~ physicist to build a bridge, it collapse but he knows exactly how and why it collapsed.

Ask an engineer to do it, it holds but he has no idea how it's holding together.

[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the word you're looking for is physicist. A physician is a medical doctor (as in a person that treats sick people). A physicist is a person that studies physics (as in a person that knows how to solve word problems involving pool tables).

[–] oce@jlai.lu 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a classic French speaker mistake because physicist is "physicien" and physician is "médecin", very different.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago
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