William Winwood Reade (1838–1875) British historian
V. S. Pritchett in The New Statesman and Nation vol. 25 (1943), p. 323.
Criticism of The Martyrdom of Man
“One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life.”
Source: Religion and the Rebel (1957), p. 309
Context: One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.
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