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... operations . And besides they have mostly proposed to themselves certain petty tasks , taking it for a great matter to work out some single discovery ; —a course of proceeding at once poor in aim and unskilfut in design . For no man can ...
... operations . And besides they have mostly proposed to themselves certain petty tasks , taking it for a great matter to work out some single discovery ; —a course of proceeding at once poor in aim and unskilfut in design . For no man can ...
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... and that in the minor propositions as well as the major . For I consider induction to be that form of demonstration which upholds the sense , and closes with nature , and comes to the very brink of operation , if 24 PLAN OF THE WORK .
... and that in the minor propositions as well as the major . For I consider induction to be that form of demonstration which upholds the sense , and closes with nature , and comes to the very brink of operation , if 24 PLAN OF THE WORK .
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... operation , if it does not actually deal with it . Hence it follows that the order of demonstration is likewise inverted . For hitherto the proceeding has been to fly at once from the sense and particulars up to the most general proposi ...
... operation , if it does not actually deal with it . Hence it follows that the order of demonstration is likewise inverted . For hitherto the proceeding has been to fly at once from the sense and particulars up to the most general proposi ...
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... in subtlety , in selection also and setting forth , with a view to the operations which are to follow . For first , the object of the natural history which I propose is not so much to delight with variety of matter 28 PLAN OF THE WORK .
... in subtlety , in selection also and setting forth , with a view to the operations which are to follow . For first , the object of the natural history which I propose is not so much to delight with variety of matter 28 PLAN OF THE WORK .
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... operation fails . And all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are . For God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the ...
... operation fails . And all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are . For God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the ...
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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.