 | Samuel Pierpont Langley, American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1888 - 23 էջ
...ir>0 j ADDRESS BT SP LA^GLEY, ' THE RETIRING PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION. THE HISTORY OF A DOCTRINE. "Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature,...the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." — BACON'S Novum Organum, aphorism i. IN these days, when a man can... | |
 | 1888
...indispensable preliminary. " Man, the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and underbtand to • niel i , and so much only, as he has observed in fact or in...the course of nature ; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." The proposition that our knowledge of nature necessarily begins with... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889
...1858. ADDRESS BY SP LANGLEY, THE RETIRING PRE3iDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION. THE HISTORY OF A DOGTB1NE. "Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature,...the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." — BACON'S Novum Organum, aphorism i. IN these days, when a man can... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889
...1868. ADDRESS BT SP LANGLEY, THE RETIRING PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION. THE HISTORY OF A DOCTRINE. "Man, being the servant and Interpreter of nature,...can do and understand so much, and so much only, as lie has observed, In fnct or In thought, of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything... | |
 | 1890
...extend to the knowledge of real objects are dependent solely upon observation and experiment." He says " 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... | |
 | Lewis French Stearns - 1890 - 473 էջ
...experience.10 The first words of the Novum Organum strike the keynote to the new scientific method : " Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature,...the course of nature ; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." " Would that physical science, with its inflated currency of theory,... | |
 | Benjamin Chapman Burt - 1892 - 372 էջ
...Knowledge. — Man is the " servant and interpreter of nature : " he can do and understand only so much as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature. The unaided intellect, like the unaided hand, cannot effect much. To penetrate into the recesses of... | |
 | Edwin Bormann - 1895 - 278 էջ
...et intclligit, quantum dc Naturae Ordine re, vel mente, observavcrit : nee amplius scit, aut potest. (Man being the servant and interpreter of Nature,...the course of nature : beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.) And immediately thereupon we read in the third aphorism of this work... | |
 | 1895
...preserved, but never read. —Brinton. THE LNXAND EDUCATOR. SCIENCE. CONDI-CTED BY CHAKLES R. DRYEK. "Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so muck and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of Hit course of nature; beyond this... | |
 | William Gay Ballantine - 1896 - 174 էջ
...must give attention. Each act of attention is called an Observation. To quote the words of Bacon : " Man, being the servant ^ and interpreter of Nature,...the course of nature : beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." l The five senses report to the mind the world of matter and force ;... | |
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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. 
