"This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.“


-Friedrich August von Hayek

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This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

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