" Weber writes that “science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: ‘What shall we do and how shall we live?’ ” Science is so committed to describing the world objectively, he argued, without presuppositions, that it cannot even affirm its own intrinsic value; it can’t explain why technical mastery of the world is desirable, or why knowledge itself is worthwhile. "

― Meghan O'Gieblyn , God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning