The empty Paper whose whiteness defends.

Я отсюда родом. Я из Советского Союза. Советский Союз я защищаю до смерти. Это была моя Родина. Сейчас я живу Бог его знает где. Нас посетила какая-то чума. Но она скоро закончится. Самое главное оружие - это терпение. Нужно терпеливо воевать, не принимать, и постоянно гадить этой чуме. Пока она не сломается.

So long as participation in knowledge does not embrace everyone, pure science will remain indifferent to struggle and depredation, while applied science will contribute to destruction either directly by the invention of weapons, or indirectly by endowing things like consumer goods with a seductive appearance, thus fostering friction among people. Scientists, who take no direct personal part in the struggle or in actual war and who are outside the reach of natural disasters because they are sheltered against them by the peasantry – who bear the full brunt of nature – will remain indifferent even to the depletion of natural resources and to changes in climate. Indeed, changes in climate may be pleasant to town dwellers, even when they result in crop failures.

Yet from the pulpit comes a voice saying, 'Beware of this audacity which seeks to bring down rain from heaven by means of gunfire.' * But if gunfire cannot be condemned out of hand even when it brings death (for example, in the defense of the homeland), why should it be condemned when it brings life and saves people from starvation? Is it not rather the carrying out of God's will?