Arthur Balfour - Science Quotes

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

Arthur Balfour

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.

Arthur Balfour

Science depends upon measurement, and things not measurable are therefore excluded, or tend to be excluded, from its attention.

Arthur Balfour

Unless appearances are to be trusted, why should we believe in Science? If Science is true, how can we trust to appearances?

Arthur Balfour

Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

Arthur Balfour