Science

"Not so much to amass still more knowledge as first to invalidate its vast deposits in those areas where less important and therefore superfluous information lies--that seems to me to be the first duty of contemporary science. The technologies of information have created, supposedly, a paradise in which anyone who desires to can know everything; but this is a complete fiction. Selection, tantamount to resignation, is as unavoidable as breathing."

His Master's Voice
Stanislaw Lem
1968