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Before the seventeenth century, the goals of science were wisdom, understanding the natural order, and living in harmony with it. In the seventeenth century this attitude, which could call as an ecological attitude, changed into its opposite. Ever since Bacon the goal of science and technology has been knowledge that can be used to dominate and control nature, and today both science and technology are used predominantly for purposes that are dangerous, harmful and anti-ecological.

Excerpted from Page 335 of ‘The Tao of Physics’ by Fritjof Capra