MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature : beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. Works of Francis Bacon - Página 67por Francis Bacon - 1863Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1904 - 648 páginas
...nature, can do and understand so much and so much only, as he has observed in fact or in thought in the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything."* A glance at the extensive, even censored, list of claimants will evoke serious thought. "Thus was the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 páginas
...is done and he has begun to be his own master, let him (if he will) use his own judgment. APHOEISMS. APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE...this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. ii. Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 páginas
...he will) use his own judgment. tier tie - or ser osf in 'ut he °It APHOKISHS. APHORISMS CONCEEKINO THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN....this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. II. Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1864 - 528 páginas
...(if he wilH use his own judgment. APHORISMS. APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTEBPBETATION Ol1 NATURE AMD THE KINGDOM OF MAN. APHORISM I. MAN, being the servant...this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. n. Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 páginas
...they extend to the knowledge of real objects, are dependent solely upon observation and experiment. " Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much only as he has observed, either in fact or in thought, of the course of Nature ; beyond this, he cannot... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1865 - 478 páginas
...they extend to the knowledge of real objects, are dependent solely upon observation and experiment. " Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much only as he has observed, either in fact or in thought, of the course of Nature ; beyond this, he cannot... | |
| Francis Dennis Massy DAWSON - 1870 - 152 páginas
...which we have positive evidence of what He did, are frivolous in the extreme. " Man," says Bacon, " being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do...only, as he has observed in fact or in thought of nature ; beyond this, He neither knows anything nor can do anything " (Nov. Org.) So, also, is it in... | |
| Augustus De Morgan - 1872 - 530 páginas
...confusion and all their conflict. Let us take the well-known first aphorism of the ' Novum Organum :' • 2 Man being the servant and interpreter of nature, can...thought of the course of nature : beyond this he neither known anything nor can do anything. This aphorism is placed by Sir John Herschel at the head of his... | |
| Augustus De Morgan - 1872 - 552 páginas
...confusion and all their conflict. Let us take the well-known first aphorism of the ' Novum Organum :' Man being the servant and interpreter of nature, can...only, as he has observed in fact or in thought of tho course of nature : beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. This aphorism is... | |
| A. Elley Finch - 1872 - 136 páginas
...very striking aphorism,2 that man's powers are entirely limited to his knowledge of nature — ' Man, the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and...as he has observed, in fact or in thought, of the order of nature — more than this, he can neither know nor do.' That such knowledge is only to be... | |
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