“Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our que…”

“Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live”

— Leo Tolstoy

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Title: Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy
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Quoted by Max Weber in his lecture "Science as a Vocation"; in Lynda Walsh (2013), Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy (2013), Oxford University Press, p. 90

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Tolstoy, Leo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Leo Tolstoy. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

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