Some things ought not be scientific
December 30th, 2005 | Published in Quotes, Science
There are some things which actually ought not to be scientific… I mean the habit of beginning not with the human soul, which is the first thing man learns about, but with some such thing as protoplasm, which is about the last.
—G.K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905), in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume I (1986), p. 77