 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 mueh only, as he has observed, in fact or in thought, of the course of nature. Beyond this he...  Proceedings - Page ciby American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1889Full view - About this book
 | 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, 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 500 pages
...APHORISMS APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN APHORISM . i. X 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 pages
...judgment. APHORISMS APHORISMS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE , AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN APHORISM 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... | |
 | William Gay Ballantine - Logic - 1930 - 240 pages
...properly relating ourselves to the universe in which we have our being. [25] To quote the words of Bacon, "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... | |
 | Education - 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 understand so much, and so much only, as he has observed in fact or in thoughts in the course of nature; beyond that he neither... | |
 | United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Astronautics - 1964 - 304 pages
...Webb School Alumni Association Testimonial Dinner, Los Angeles, California, April 26,1962. Appendixes 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... | |
 | Geography - 1890 - 1162 pages
...ZEEGATEN EN RIVIERMONDEN IN NEDERLAND, DOOR E. ENGELENBURG, Civiel Ingenieur. Man being the eervant and Interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much, and so mach only, as hè bas observed, in fact or in thonght, of the course of naturc. Beyond this hè neither... | |
 | Alfred Rosenthal - Astronautics - 1968 - 384 pages
...APPENDIXES Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, ran do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the...nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. —FRANCIS BACON Appendix A Introduction to the United States Space Sciences Program* Excerpts... | |
 | Howard B. White - History - 1968 - 286 pages
...not. With regard to the understanding of nature, according to Bacon, man can understand only what man has "observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature." Bacon adds that neither the bare hand nor the understanding is worth very much of itself. 47 That implies,... | |
 | George Huntston Williams, Frank Forrester Church, Timothy Francis George - Religion - 1979 - 458 pages
...which arose from direct observation: Man... can do and understand so much and so much only as he lias observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything. 28 It is as little children that we must come into the kingdom, whether natural or supernatural.... | |
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