We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Bio: Eugene Linden is an American author of several non-fiction books on science, technology, the environment, and humanity's relationship with Nature. He was educated at Yale University. He lives in Nyack, New York.