QUOTE : Marian was of the opinion that knowledge was without morals. Without ethics. It was the science itself which was important, not the future it was supposedly bringing about. The ends didn’t justify the means, because once you were at the ‘ends,’ you didn’t need to justify them to anyone. The work justified itself, and it made no sense to question it. Science was pure, and knowledge was never a bad thing. It was the one thing that no one could take from you. Knowledge was yours, to use as you saw fit. Knowledge was power, and the more of it you had, the more powerful you were. To attach morality to it was only holding yourself back.