Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science. Author: E.M. Forster Copy Quote More from E.M. Forster “Human beings have their great chance in the novel.” “You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that yo…” “... and someone he scarcely knew moved towards him and knelt beside him and whi…” “The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who a…”