Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree w…

E. O. Wilson
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Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do. ✨ LETTERS / Readers Have Their Say / Morality and our environmental salvation. www.sfgate.com. May 12, 2002.
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Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do. ✨ LETTERS / Readers Have Their Say / Morality and our environmental salvation. www.sfgate.com. May 12, 2002.

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