Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Tolstoy , Leo (1903), Essays and Letters, Retrieved on 2012-06-11
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    11 JUN 2012

     Science is Disconnected from the Needs of Man

    A plain, reasonable working man supposes, in the old way which is also the common-sense way, that if there are people who spend their lives in study, whom he feeds and keeps while they think for him—then no doubt these men are engaged in studying things men need to know; and he expects of science that it will solve for him the questions on which his welfare, and that of all men, depends. He expects science to tell him how he ought to live: how to treat his family, his neighbours and the men o...
    Folksonomies: science meaning
    Folksonomies: science meaning
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    It gives useless facts, while the average man is seeking meaning.

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