[Albion Wilde]

I love it when scientists try to explain what Grandma knew without words. It kills me when I go into an art museum and see a painting of a color pattern that sold for $ millions, then walk into a quilt shop and see an incredibly complex design that sells for a couple of hundred.

Somebody smart once said, "Does the ornithologist teach the bird to sing?"

[NorthMountain]

I love it when scientists try to explain what Grandma knew without words.

That's the difference between science and engineering, and craft. The scientist will provide a theoretical explanation of what the craftsman knows but does not fully understand. The engineer will take that theory and expand the technique in ways the craftsman would never have dreamed.