 | Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 474 էջ
...Induction. The indispensable preliminary to Induction is the observation and collection of facts. " Man the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much, and only so much, as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - 1915 - 426 էջ
...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,...the course of nature : beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." This aphorism is placed by Sir John Herschel5 at the head of his Discourse... | |
 | George Washington Andrew Luckey - 1916 - 208 էջ
...being the servant and the interpreter of nature, can understand so much, and so much only as he has in fact or in thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can he do anything." — Novum Organum. "Certain custom is most perfect when it beginneth... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1918 - 424 էջ
...so could man regain his power over nature. "Man, the servant and interpreter of nature," Bacon says, "can do and understand so much, and so much only,...observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature." "First of all, we must prepare a natural and experimental history, sufficient and good; and this is... | |
 | Frederick Tice - 1922 - 658 էջ
...procedures of investigation, and more deft in their technic. understand so much, only as he observes in fact or in thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything, nor can do anything." "Of such observation there will be hardly any . . . proficience . .... | |
 | George Lee Servoss - 1922 - 904 էջ
...Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and can understand so much and only so much as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature. Beyond can he neither know anything nor can he do anything. Neither his naked hand nor his understanding,... | |
 | Woodbridge Riley - 1926 - 376 էջ
...to the advancement of learning. As Lord Bacon once said, in his attack on the idols of false belief: "Man being the servant and interpreter of nature,...the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." BOOK I The 'Age of Myth I § i. The Beginnings • The first hints of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 էջ
...judgment. APHORISMS APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN APHORISM i. MAN, being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. ii. Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect... | |
 | George Sylvester Viereck, Paul Eldridge - 1928 - 522 էջ
...futile scholastic argumentations? Was he endeavoring to see truth, to love reality? "Man," he continued, "can do and understand so much and so much only as...he has observed in fact or in thought of the course ot Nature; beyond this, he neither knows anything nor can do anything." Who was this man, this oracle... | |
 | Martha Ornstein Bronfenbrenner - 1928 - 330 էջ
...to be repeated in countless variations: "Man .... can do and understand so much, only as he observes in fact or in thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything, nor can do anything."82 .... "Of such observation there will be hardly any .... proficience... | |
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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. 
