Quotable Quote: C.S. Lewis: Science began with belief in a Lawmaker

‘Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it. Two significant developments have already appeared—the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the surrender of the claim that science is true. We may be living nearer than we suppose to the end of the Scientific Age.’

• Lewis, C.S., Miracles: a preliminary study, Collins, London, p. 110, 1947.