Too good–good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook. I was a pretty good physicist in my time. "You've had no scientific training, so you can't judge. "Yes but what sort of science?" asked Mustapha Mond sarcastically. "And all the science propaganda we do at the College …" "Three times a week between thirteen and seventeen," put in Bernard. "But we're always saying that science is everything. Science is dangerous we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled." It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness it's also science. "Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. He made a desperate effort to take the Controller's meaning. Shakespeare and the old men of the pueblo had never mentioned science, and from Linda he had only gathered the vaguest hints: science was something you made helicopters with, some thing that caused you to laugh at the Corn Dances, something that prevented you from being wrinkled and losing your teeth. But what it exactly signified he could not say.
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