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Pure science is no more and no less than the logical process of deduction and experimentation upon observable events. It has no good or bad about it, merely right or wrong in a strictly mathematical definition. What people do with that science is cause for ethical debate, but it is not for the true scientist to concern themselves with that. Leave it to the politicians and philosophers.

— Catherine Webb The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014)

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“Politics,” he spat. “Everyone is always looking for material to use against everybody else.”

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