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Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.

— Nicola Cabibbo

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Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.

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