What kind of new life have I got? I can't even replace it.
That's the way life is. It'll all be taken away from us in the end.
It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.
The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more