A Quote by C. S. Lewis
But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.
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The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.
In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experimentally and experientially. When so found these limits turn out to be further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits.
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
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