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Future of science


Science bestows upon him who labours and experiments in it much satisfaction.If this demand of higher culture is not met, then the future course of human evolution can be foretold almost with certainty: interest in truth will cease the less pleasure it gives: because they are associated with pleasure, illusion, error and fantasy will regains step by step the ground they formerly herd: the ruination of science, a sinking back into barbarism, will be the immediate consequence; mankind will have to begin again at the weaving of its tapestry, after having, like Penelope, unwoven it at night. Bu who can guarantee to us that it will always find the strength for it?

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 - 1900