Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
By the Obama administration's reasoning it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.