To know the mind of God

When God said let there be light, this is what he was thinking:



For some reason I was talking to a preacher on frankston beach for a long time last friday. He was trying to convince me that I should bow down and worship God, and I was trying to explain to him that God was the infinite universe itself. It was kind of an interesting conversation. Anyway it seems that Einstein already expressed many of my ideas in a more eloquent way:

"You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds without a peculiar religious feeling of his own. But it is different from the religion of the naive man."

"For the latter God is a being from whose care one hopes to benefit and whose punishment one fears; a sublimation of a feeling similar to that of a child for its father, a being to whom one stands to some extent in a personal relation, however deeply it may be tinged with awe."

"But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the past. There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."

"I do not think that it is necessarily the case that science and religion are natural opposites. In fact, I think that there is a very close connection between the two. Further, I think that science without religion is lame and, conversely, that religion without science is blind. Both are important and should work hand-in-hand." [45]

"For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts." [46]

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

I've been trying to decide if I still want to do engineering for a while now, and it has come to the point where I pretty much need to make a decision before next week, so I can discontinue my eng subjects and take up the extra science units. It's a hard thing to decide though. On one hand, I save a year by ditching engineering, and if I'm not going to pursue an engineering career there probably isn't that much point going further with it. I've learned all the basic thermodynamics and fluid dynamics that they have to teach me, from here on it gets complicated and directly applies to designing things. There are also many extra science units I want to do.
On the other hand I would like to build my balloon craft and helicopter contraptions, etc. However actually having a job in engineering probably wouldn't involve these things, It'd be in my own time and with my own money, which may be something of a barrier.
I guess it comes down to this:
Science is the pursuit of knowledge, to know the mind of God.
Engineering is the harnessing of the powers of God for human use, beneficial and destructive both.

Which do I want more? I can't realistically do both, at least not to the level of expertise that would justify the above definitions of the disciplines.