Dimension

“Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently. Should the knife have not been developed?”

-Wernher von Braun,

Address delivered to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, as published in “The Nature of a Humane Society: A Symposium on the Bicentennial of the United States of America” (1977) edited by Hans Ober Hess.