“We don’t need all that science and logic that you are so keen on wasting your time on – we have magic.  Magic can solve all problems eventually, if applied properly.”

Edrik: “We don’t need all that science and logic nonsense that you are so keen on – we have magic.  Magic can solve all problems eventually, if applied properly.”

Kyr: “Magic provides us with no greater understanding of nature, nor ourselves.  Science can help us to see and comprehend the natural laws that govern our world and our very existence.”

Edrik: ”And magic can help us overthrow those laws and free us from their opressive ways, making room for all the really dangerously exciting stuff we can talk about at parties.”

Kyr: ”We could discuss strange results derived from obscure mathematical equations and debate curious theoretical interpretations of bold and profound philosphical theorems.”

E: “It seems inside your mind the word exciting was mugged and beat to death by two ruffians named Boredonius and Dullard.”

K: “I do not expect your limited mind to see the possibilities of my work and the profound impact it could have on this whole kingdom.”

E: ”All right, so then how can science greatly improve our lives?  Honestly, I do not care to understand my existance and I crave no deeper meaning to it all.  I have reason and meaning enough to drink and smack my girlfriend’s bottom and that my good fellow is as deep as this mind needs to go.”

K: ”There is limitless potential for  practical applications of scientific research.  Perhaps we could find ways to increase the food supply by getting plants to grow bigger, or improve the quality of our food.”

E: ”Improve the quality?  How?”

K: ”Well there you go, actually, first we need to establish just what is of better quality.  We would need to start by examining the different types of food and determining what properties each one has that make it different from theothers.  From there maybe we could figure out which ones taste better, stay fresh longer, or might help us to live longer.”

E: ”But how can you tell if a certain kind of food makes a person live longer?  You would have to live longer than them just to accurately make your first measurement.”

K: ”I could start the research and train those younger than me to carry it on.  All we would need is to establish a common system or approach that could be applied over and over again in a consistent manner.”

E: ”And someday, generations from now we might be able to create some sort of highly advanced form of cow that produces life extending milk.”

K: ”Well, I was thinking of plants.  I’m not sure how much we can change a cow.  Unless we devise some mechanical apparatus that can be incorporated into its milk generating system.  Some form of sophisticated udder upgrader.”

E: ”Ugh, I hate when you start rolling out all that technical gibberish.”

K: ”Perhaps we could attach nozzles to the udder that transmute the milk into some other drink.”

E: ”An ale cow!  Oh man, suddenly this science business has a future!”

K: ”No!  That’s not what I meant.  I’m not saying it isn’t a fine goal to shoot for, I have no quarry with increasing the availability of good ale, but somehow that just doesn’t seem right…”

E: ”I’ll bet magic could create an Ale Cow.”

K: ”You’re not going to let this go, are you?  Ask your girlfriend to make one then.”

E: ”She won’t use her powers like that, at least not for me.  She takes all the new regulations so seriously.”

K: ”At least she has some sense left.  Although, another application of these methods would also be to study magic itself, objectively, to see if there are limits to it or to find out if it has long term side effects on the person who uses it.  And, determine if there are actually long term effects on our world.”

E: ”Like what?”

K: ”Perhaps using too much magic all the time is heating up the ground all throughout the kingdom, and someday will kill off all the plant life.”

E: ”I’ve heard of that theory, from somewhere.  Must be another theory dreamed up by one of your crack pot friends.”

K: ”It’s not as silly an idea as you might think actually.”

E: ”Like an Ale Cow?”

…

K: ”Obviously my quest to enlighten you is a hopeless cause.”

E: ”If only you could demonstrate the power of this way of thinking.  I am a simple man Kyr, I need visual proof, tanglible results.  Show me the goods and I’ll buy your wares but no bananas means no sale.”

K: ”Why do you persist in talking that way?”

E: ”You’re the one bringing udder ugrading apparatuses into our polite conversation…”

K: ”Ok, you have a point there.”

…

E: ”Say, what is that?”

K: ”I…really cannot say…”