Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' (Erwin Chargaff)

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Erwin Chargaff

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