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We are beginning to see that to ask what is the use of science is as vulgar as to ask what is the use of a sunset, and almost as stupid.
— John Desmond Bernal, The Social Function of Science (1939)

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The Saturday Selection, Vol. 96

From art to religion to sex, instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value. But life is about more than material benefits.

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