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Wilson: It has only to do with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of men, our love of culture. It has to do with are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets? I mean all the things we really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending.

I guess science and philosophy really don't have much to do with each other.

Wilson may be a great scientist, but there are so many logical fallacies in his argument that one wouldn't know where to begin.

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Please expound upon those supposed logical fallacies. I would enjoy hearing them.

Wilson was a great Scientist as well as having a great sense of what makes our Nation great. Science doesn't have to be put into pills or bombs in order to be of value.

Michael Faraday was once asked of what use Electricity could possibly be. He responded “of what use is a newborn baby?”. Some things have an intrinsic value in and of themselves, and Scientific knowledge is one of them.

When asked the same question by Parliament he told them ‘I have no idea what use Electricity will be put to, but no doubt some day you will tax it.’.