“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

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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Russian writer 1828–1910

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