Ah science!

Galileo's excision of God from the world of matter mirrored the even more audacious banishment of subjective experiences from the domain of rigorous intellectual exploration.

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Not only their knowability was questioned, but even their reality.
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Science is the study of reality
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What is not measurable is not a valid subject of science.
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Therefore what is not measurable is not real.
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A century later, David Hume took up this position with great enthusiasm:
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Let us ask,
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Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?
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No.
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Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?
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No.
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Commit it then to the flames; for it contains nothing but sophistry and illusion.
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Ironic indeed, then, is the present state of science,
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In which once again vast areas of inquiry are off-limits.
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In which experimental results that contradict orthodoxy are excluded from publication.
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In which knowledge is restricted to those initiated into the language of its abstruse texts.
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In which whole fields wallow in fruitless hyperspecialization.
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In which the public can only await the pronouncements of this new quasi-ecclesiastical hierarchy.
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Holder of the keys to the gates of knowledge.
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Can we say that we have not replicated the old world within the new?
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Upon the Scientific Method, which freed thought from the institutionalized, authoritarian superstition of the Middle Ages.
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We have built yet a new orthodoxy.
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More totalitarian, if more subtle, than the first.
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Charles Eisenstein