I'm not sure there's an answer for this, but I would
suspect that it's because science stands for "objective truth" --- I know that this is
not as true as it once was in the days of Newton, but science is capable of creating
testable laws, laws that cannot be manipulated by the state. Who contols the present
controls the past ... but control of the present doesn't give anyone control of
scientific realities. It may be inconvenient for the state to believe that force = mass
x acceleration (f=ma), but it's not something that they can change simply because they
contol the present --- not, at least, if there's real science
around.
The admission that there are absolute truths might
give people the idea that there are other "absolute" truths, and that not eerything they
are told is true is. This is not in the best interests of the Party's state ... so no
science, no absolute truths, just malleability.
Hope this
helps.
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