advance in science, The Mechanics of Virtue, Matt Berry, aphorism 144
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A great advance in science breaks with a custom and thus constitutes a public immorality, which then, after this new custom is set, becomes the next scientific impediment. A great discovery in science is an Evil that threatens the present Good while establishing the conditions from which it emerges again as the next Good. Pure Evil then would be indistinguishable from an acceleration of scientific discovery no longer hindered by the friction of a “moral Good.”
A great advance in science breaks with a custom and thus constitutes a public immorality, which then, after this new custom is set, becomes the next scientific impediment. A great discovery in science is an Evil that threatens the present Good while establishing the conditions from which it emerges again as the next Good. Pure Evil then would be indistinguishable from an acceleration of scientific discovery no longer hindered by the friction of a “moral Good.”