 | Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...practically infinitesimal. 1 "My way of discovering sciences goes far to level men's wits, and leaves but little to individual excellence, because it performs...everything by the surest rules and demonstrations." (Novum Organum, bk. 1, 122.) 7. And this involves that the reputed moral contribution of a Socrates... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 pages
...work in hand hereafter. For my way of discovering sciences goes far to level men's wits, and leaves but little to individual excellence ; because it performs...good luck than to ability, and account it a birth of tune rather than of wit. For certainly chance has something to do with men's thoughts, as well as with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...work in hand hereafter. For my way of discovering sciences goes far to level men's wits, and leaves but little to individual excellence; because it performs...men's thoughts, as well as with their works and deeds. cxxin. I may say then of myself that which one said in jest (since it marks the distinction so truly),... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 pages
...work in hand hereafter. For my way of discovering sciences goes far to level men's wits, and leaves but little to individual excellence ; because it performs...men's thoughts, as well as with their works and deeds. CXXIII. I may say then of myself that which one said in jest (since it marks the distinction so truly),... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1863 - 532 pages
...fiction and imposture ; nor do I think that it matters any more to the business in hand, whether•the discoveries that shall now be made were long ago known...account it a birth of time rather than of wit. For certainlv chance has something to do with men's thoughts, as well as with their works and deeds. •... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1864 - 528 pages
...primary notions, there must have been some true discoveries to correct the false. But the errors being O fundamental, and not so much of false judgment as...men's thoughts, as well as with their works and deeds. cxxnI. I may say then of myself that which one said in jest (since it marks the distinction so truly),... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - 1872 - 530 pages
...exactly with my plan. . . For my way of discovering sciences goes far to level men's wits, and leaves but little to individual excellence ; because it performs...everything by the surest rules and demonstrations. To show that we do not strain Bacon's meaning, we add what is said by Hooke, whom we have already mentioned... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Circle-squaring - 1872 - 552 pages
...exactly with my plan. . . For my way of discovering sciences goes far to level men's wits, and leaves but little to individual excellence; because it performs everything by the surest rales and demonstrations. To show that we do not strain Bacon's meaning, we add what is said by Hooke,... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Science - 1883 - 332 pages
...description of his ' way of discovering sciences,' as one that ' goes far to level men's wits and leaves but little to individual excellence, because it performs...everything by the surest rules and demonstrations,' reads as an absurdity in the presence of the history of the last two centuries. 'Wha£ are large collections... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...work in hand hereafter. For my way of discovering sciences goes far to level men's wits, and leaves but little to individual excellence ; because it performs...the surest rules and demonstrations. And therefore attribute my part in all this, as I have often said, rather to good luck than to ability, and account... | |
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And therefore I attribute my part in all this, as I have often said, rather to good luck than to ability, and account it a birth of time rather than of wit. 
