Arthur Balfour

"Suppose that it was a familiar thought in your minds that there never was at any moment of the year within the limits of your State more than seven weeks food for the population, and that that food ha…"

"On questions of taste there is notoriously the widest divergence of opinion./.../ if, from a survival point of view, one taste be as good as another, it is not the varieties in taste which should caus…"

"Whereas reasons may, and usually do, figure among the proximate causes of belief, and thus play a part in both kinds of series , it is always possible to trace back the causal series to a point where …"

"We now know too much about matter to be materialists. The very essence of the physical order of things is that it creates nothing new. Change is never more than a redistribution of that which never ch…"

"t is Authority rather than Reason to which, in the main, we owe, not religion only, but ethics and politics; that it is Authority which supplies us with essential elements in the premises of science; …"

"Theory of selection /.../ leaves untouched all that can be inferred from the existence of the conditions which make organic evolution possible: matter which lives, multiplies, and varies ; an environm…"

"...we are now in a position which we have not been within the memory of living men. Now, what does this imply? Everything depends upon the Navy. We exist as an Empire only on sufferance unless our Nav…"

"Everything that happened, good or bad, would subtract something from the lessening store of useful energy, till a time arrived when nothing could happen any more, and the universe, frozen into eternal…"