“Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.”
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In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
