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The Limits of Science

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 23, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 51.

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The Limits of Science

As a comment on the question in Job, “Canst thou by searching find out God?” note the following words of Lord Kelvin, one of the leading scientists of Britain, uttered just before his death:—
One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perseveringly for fifty-five years; that word is failure. I know no more of electric and magnetic force, or of the relation between ether, electricity, and ponderable matter, or of chemical affinity, than I knew and tried to teach my class-students in my first session as professor.