‘"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the cat. "I don't much care where—" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the cat.’
John Kemeny places Alices question, and the cat's famous answer, at the head of his chapter on science and values in A Philosopher Looks at Science, 1959. . . . The cat's answer expresses very precisely the eternal cleavage between science and ethics. As Kemeny makes the clear, science cannot tell us where to go, but after this decision is made on other grounds, it can tell us the best way to get there.