“Study of the scientific world cannot prescribe the orientation of something which is excluded from the scientific world.”

IV, p.43
Science and the Unseen World (1929)

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British astrophysicist 1882–1944

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“The scientific answer is relevant so far as concerns the sense-impressions… For the rest the human spirit must turn to the unseen world to which it itself belongs.”

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Context: The scientific answer is relevant so far as concerns the sense-impressions... For the rest the human spirit must turn to the unseen world to which it itself belongs.<!--IV, p.43

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