Once the Soviet writer and philosopher Maxim Gorky was explaining the glorious achievements of modern science to some Russian peasants. "By the power of the latest technology, humans can now fly in the sky like the birds and swim in the water like the acquatics."
That was the time the World War I. clouds were looming ominously on the horizon. Weapons with greater and greater destructive potency were coming up and were arousing widespread fear about the future of the human race.
One of the more intelligent peasants therefore retorted, "But humans are unable to live like humans on the land. Can science do anything about that?"
Maxim Gorky was left speechless.