It is perfectly true that science attacks values. Not directly, since science is no judge of them and must ignore them... man must at last wake out of his millenary dream and discover his total solitude, his fundamental isolation. He must realize that, like a gypsy, he lives on the boundary of an alien world; a world that is deaf to his music, and as indifferent to his hopes as it is to his sufferings or his crimes (1974:160).

When science is projected as a religion (scientism), it becomes highly unscientific and results in being bad as both a science and a religion. Many scientists recognize, especially in the age of quantum theory, that any scientific utopianism is, fortunately, a long dead dream. The physicist, David Bohm, asks:

Is there not a kind of "hubris" that se

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