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"In the end all corruption will come about as a consequence of the natural sciences… "

Søren Kirkegård, 1813 – 1855 Was dissing corrupt scientists, not science itself. Full quote at bottom for context

"But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science." Winston Churchill during WWII

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. —Nikola Tesla

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Almost everything that nowadays flourishes most conspicuously under the name of science (especially as natural science) is not really science but curiosity. In the end all corruption will come about as a consequence of the natural sciences… But such a scientific method become especially dangerous and pernicious when it would encroach also upon the sphere of the spirit, let it deal with plants and animals and stars in that way; but to deal with the human spirit in that way is blasphemy, which only weakens ethical and religious passion. Even the act of eating is more reasonable than the speculating with a microscope upon the functions of digestion… A dreadful sophistry spreads microscopically and telescopically into tomes, and yet it the last resort produces nothing, qualitatively understood, though it does, to be sure, cheat men out of the simple profound and passionate wonder which gives impetus to the ethical… the only thing certain is the ethical-religious.

Søren Kirkegård, 1813 – 1855

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Dear Corrupt Bill,

Take your microchip with the 666 on it, and shove it up your Epstein Island azz

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