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... discovery ; —a course of proceeding at once poor in aim and unskilfut in design . For no man can rightly and successfully investigate the nature of anything in the thing itself ; let him vary his experiments as laboriously as he will ...
... discovery ; —a course of proceeding at once poor in aim and unskilfut in design . For no man can rightly and successfully investigate the nature of anything in the thing itself ; let him vary his experiments as laboriously as he will ...
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... discovered , the use of the mariner's needle , as a more faithful and certain guide , had to be found out ; in like manner the discoveries which have been hitherto made in the arts and sciences are such as might be made by practice ...
... discovered , the use of the mariner's needle , as a more faithful and certain guide , had to be found out ; in like manner the discoveries which have been hitherto made in the arts and sciences are such as might be made by practice ...
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... discovering their own errors ; only the errors are here , the means of dis- covery are to seek . The sense fails in two ways . Sometimes it gives no infor- mation , sometimes it gives false information . For first , there are very many ...
... discovering their own errors ; only the errors are here , the means of dis- covery are to seek . The sense fails in two ways . Sometimes it gives no infor- mation , sometimes it gives false information . For first , there are very many ...
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... discovered will carry whole troops of works along with them , and produce them , not here and there one , but in ... discovery of causes would have thought of inquiring after ; being indeed in themselves of no PLAN OF THE WORK . 29.
... discovered will carry whole troops of works along with them , and produce them , not here and there one , but in ... discovery of causes would have thought of inquiring after ; being indeed in themselves of no PLAN OF THE WORK . 29.
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... discovered , proved , or added , — not however according to the true rules and methods of interpretation , but by the ordinary use of the un- derstanding in inquiring and discovering . For besides that I hope my speculations may in ...
... discovered , proved , or added , — not however according to the true rules and methods of interpretation , but by the ordinary use of the un- derstanding in inquiring and discovering . For besides that I hope my speculations may in ...
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Página 47 - Human knowledge and human power meet in one, for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed, and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Página 93 - Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only collect and use : the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course ; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Página 499 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.