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Science a good servant, but a bad master

Second things suffer, as Lewis was fond of repeating, when put first. Science is a good servant but a bad master, a good method for investigating and manipulating the material world, but no method at all for deciding what to do with the knowledge and power acquired thereby.

Michael Aeschliman, The Restitution of Man, p. 33

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