"Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept."

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Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of values already destroyed at the roots by that very science. Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance. His duty, like his fate, is written nowhere.

— Jacques Monod