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“I’ve always considered politics to be destructive when it isn’t ephemeral. One party does this thing here, the other parties push back; today’s gains are wiped out by tomorrow’s losses. A woman labors for years for some coveted appointment and the moment she gets it, her kingdom is invaded and it’s all for naught.”

Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent…But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it. Science can make pesticide, but cannot tell us not to use it. And our world starts to seem polluted in fundamental ways—air, and water, and land—because of ungovernable science.