Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.

— Jean-François Lyotard The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977)

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