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Science (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠useful, immediately, for one thing only: teaching us to steer future events by their causes.

Science (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in practice harder to fix than taste: Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus and Descartes yield to each other, while Terence and Virgil keep an undisputed empire.

Science (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for Hume, used interchangably with the word philosophy, science is a science of human nature set out to discern the limits of human powers.

Science (n.) leads ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠us to a first intelligent author all the more persuasively because it never professes that aim: the anatomist cannot rest until he finds a new organ's use.

Science (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠had two thousand years, with long interruptions and mighty discouragements — a small space to perfect it; we may still be in too early an age of the world.