The Limits of Science – Peter Medawar
That there is indeed a limit upon science is made very likely by the existence of questions that science cannot answer, and that no conceivable advance of science would empower it to answer. I have in mind such questions as: How did everything begin? What are we all here for? What is the point of living?
Doctrinaire positivism – now something of a period piece – dismissed all such questions as nonquestions or pseudoquestions such as only simpletons ask and only charlatans profess to be able to answer.
Sir Peter Brian Medawar OM CBE FRS (1915 – 1987), British zoologist & Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine 1960. Quoted in P.B. Medawar, The Limits of Science, (Oxford University Press, Oxford (1987).
