Arthur Balfour Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• 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

  Change, Religious, Knowledge

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

  Arthur Balfour

  Independent, Science, Theory

  Arthur James Balfour, Michael W. Perry (2000). “Theism and Humanism: The Book That Influenced C. S. Lewis”, p.140, Inkling Books

• Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.

  Arthur Balfour

  Education, Science, Men

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