Comment: Embracing a scientific approach to governance encourages innovation and problem-solving, rather than reinforcing entrenched ideological battles.Reason tells us that political deliberation would be most fruitful if it treated governance more like scientific experimentation and less like an extreme-sports competition.
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Source: Enlightenment Now (Page 366 Penguin paperback edition)
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