 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1909 - 598 pages
...be set aside ; we must be on our guard against the tendency to premature 'anticipations' of nature: 'the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument ' ; men must be led back to the particular facts of experience, and pass from them to general truths... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - Philosophy, English - 1920 - 418 pages
...be set aside; we must be on our guard against the tendency to premature "anticipations" of nature: "the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument"; men must be led back to the particular facts of experience, and pass from them to general truths by... | |
 | Sir Archibald Strong - English literature - 1921 - 428 pages
...forms ' could be discovered and exhausted, were the right method once found : the task was difficult, since ' the subtlety of Nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument ' . There had, moreover, been many false guides, and not the least false had been Plato and Aristotle.... | |
 | Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher - Citizenship - 1924 - 330 pages
...acceptable to the commonwealth than a happy and liberal use of the gift of silence. VII THE CLAIMS OF RACE ' The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.' — BACON. ' An exact determination of the laws of heredity will probably... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 pages
...we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps. X. The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding; so that all those specious meditations, speculations, and glosses in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1938 - 126 pages
...thinking. Such an age echoes the words of the father of science: "It cannot be," said Francis Bacon,2 "that axioms established by argumentation should avail...greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. " " Although the roads to human power and to human knowledge," he said again,8 "lie close together,... | |
 | 1994 - 412 pages
...be set aside; we must be on our guard against the tendency to premature "anticipations" of nature: "the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument"; men must be led back to the particular facts of experience, and pass from them to general truths by... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1982 - 380 pages
...basis for all knowledge, also said: It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation can suffice for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety...greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. Unintentionally, even the most faithful began to make distinctions that led gradually to the elimination... | |
 | J. C. Davis - History - 1983 - 444 pages
...times wherein abuses have got the upper hand. Bacon, Speech upon the case of Sir Thomas Parry (1614) The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding; so that all those specious meditations, speculations, and glosses in... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1990 - 434 pages
...approach to natural phenomena in these words: "It cannot be that the axioms discovered by argumentations should avail for the discovery of new works; since...nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of arguments. . . . Radical errors in the first concoction of the mind are not to be cured by the excellence... | |
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding; so that all those specious meditations, speculations, and glosses in which men indulge are quite from the purpose, only there is no one by to observe... 
