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Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Arthur Balfour

There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable.

Arthur Balfour

When asked why he did not hunt:

I do not see why I should break my neck because a dog chooses to run after a nasty smell.

Arthur Balfour

Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the "vanity of vanities" proclaimed by the Preacher.

Arthur Balfour

Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present need, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the seven hundred thousand Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.

Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour

Arthur Balfour

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Born: July 25, 1848

Died: March 19, 1930 (aged 81)

Bio: Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour was a British Conservative politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905, and later Foreign Secretary.

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Theism and Humanism (1915)

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