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No valor da ciência, está o valor da vida; fora da vida, a ciência não tem a menor finalidade.
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The quote says that science has its deepest value in serving and enriching life. Knowledge is not treated as worthwhile in isolation: if it has no connection to living beings or their lives, it loses its purpose. Science therefore matters because of what it contributes to life, not merely because it exists.
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