Science and politics are both the epitome of extreme rationality, with the former willing to disregard everything for the sake of ideals, while the latter would risk life and limb for reality.
When it comes to science, people always say that science has no borders, but in reality, both scientists and politicians have nationalities, their own interpretations, and their own concepts of right and wrong. Science and politics are just like two fruits from the same tree.
Both are inherently skilled at dividing people into classes, endowing each other with different identities and branding them with different marks.
Excessive, isn't it?
Of course it is excessive, one being an unarguable good, the other being an evil that doesn't question right or wrong.
The former is science, and the latter is politics. Of course, there are also demigods who blend the two.
In any case, in Durin's eyes, there isn't much concrete difference between the two.
