Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963
Birthday: November 29
Death: November 22
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.
source: C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.183, Cambridge University Press
topic: Wise, Reality, Men, Applied Science