"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.“


-Joseph Wood Krutch

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Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

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