“Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.”

— Charles Krauthammer

Column, March 13, 2009, "Obama's 'Science' Fiction" http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer031309.php3 at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2000s, 2009

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