#extracts (I will never be consistent, so I won't put a number in front)
"What purpose does our work aim for? I believe that science has but one purpose: to alleviate human toil. If scientists, intimidated by powerful egotists, limit themselves to amassing knowledge for knowledge's sake, science may remain forever stunted, and your new machines will serve only to create new burdens for mankind. And when, with the passage of time, you have discovered everything that can be discovered, your progress will only be a gradual distancing from humanity. Between you and humanity, an abyss may be dug so great that, one day, at every eureka, a cry of universal pain might respond."
Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo