ABSTRACT
Science and technology have always tried to answer the question ‘how?’ How does this or that mechanism work? What are the laws and causal properties which underlie this or that phenomenon? In the case of technologies, how can such knowledge be used to develop a useful tool or machine? However, science and technology rarely address the question ‘why?’ It is often conceived as being outside their respective spheres of discourse. The question is ruled inadmissible or not appropriate for the methods and capabilities at hand. I dismiss this rejection. I believe that the questions how and why are so mutually dependent that they should never be considered independently. Indeed, I attribute much of our present grim circumstances to this unfortunate and unhappy division. Those who know how must always ask why. Those who ask why must always think how.
