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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.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

— Dixie Lee Ray

I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.

— Lisa Randall

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

— Heinz R. Pagels

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

— Charles Krauthammer

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

— Bill Nye

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

— Lewis Mumford

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

— Tony Snow

✗Opposing Perspectives

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

— Anthony Fauci

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

— David Deutsch