 | Augustus De Morgan - 1915 - 426 pages
...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,...this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." This aphorism is placed by Sir John Herschel5 at the head of his Discourse on the Study of Natural... | |
 | George Washington Andrew Luckey - 1916 - 208 pages
...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 in young years;... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1918 - 424 pages
...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 pages
...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 . . . except there be some allowance... | |
 | George Lee Servoss - 1922 - 904 pages
...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 pages
...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,...this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." BOOK I The 'Age of Myth I § i. The Beginnings • The first hints of the idea of order in nature are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 pages
...judgment. APHORISMS APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN APHORISM i. MAN, being the servant and interpreter 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... | |
 | George Sylvester Viereck, Paul Eldridge - 1928 - 522 pages
...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 pages
...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 .... except there... | |
 | 1911 - 696 pages
...of things. Hence nature must be contemplated with the eyes instead of studying it from books. "Man, the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and...and so much only, as he has observed in fact or in thoughts in the course of nature ; beyond that he neither knows anything nor can do anything." To penetrate... | |
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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. 
