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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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Science is not gadgetry.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Biography
Warren Weaver is an author of the well-known work on communication, The Mathematical Theory of Communication (together with Claude Shannon). While Shannon focused more on the engineering aspects of the mathematical model, Weaver developed the philosophical implications of Shannon's much larger essay (which forms about 3/4th of the book).
