Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"

If you ask me a question I don't know, I'm not going to answer it

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.