Science

[mkevac]

... if you live you have to be going somewhere. You have to choose a direction. And science is completly impartial. It doesn't give a damn which way you go. It can invent the atom bomb but can't tell whether to use it or not. Science is like - well, it's like a flashlight in a totally dark room measuring two billion light -years across - and with walls that shift away from you go towards them. The flash can show you where you feet are on the floor; it can show you the furniture or the people close by; but as for which direction you should take in that endless room it can tell you nothing.

Maxwell Anderson