science

re-reading Brave New World.

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"...Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled."
"What?" said Helmholtz, in astonishment. "But we're always saying that science is everything. It's a hypnopaedic platitude."
"Three times a week between thirteen and seventeen," put in Bernard.
"And all the science propaganda we do a the College..."
"Yes; but what sort of science?" asked Mustapha Mond sarcastically. "you've had no scientific training, so you can't judge. I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good-good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook. I'm the head cook now. But I was and inquisitive young scullion once. I started doing a bit of cooking on my own. Unorthodox cooking, illicit cooking. A bit of real science, in fact." He was silent.
"What happened?" asked Helmholtz Watson.
The controller sighed. "Very nearly what's going to happen to you young men. I was on the point of being sent to an island."
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if you had any idea how true this really is......