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“Saññaca diṭṭhiñca ye aggahesu�
Te ghaṭṭayantā vicaranti loketi.”
―
Te ghaṭṭayantā vicaranti loketi.”
―
“The nature of such controversies is excellently expressed, by St. Paul, in the warning and precept, that he giveth concerning the same, Devita profanas vocum novitates, et oppositiones falsi nominis scientiae.”
― The Essays
― The Essays
“What would he have said, if he had known of the massacre in France, or the powder treason of England?”
― The Essays
― The Essays
“For this is but to dash the first table against the second; and so to consider men as Christians, as we forget that they are men. Lucretius the poet, when he beheld the act of Agamemnon, that could endure the sacrificing of his own daughter, exclaimed: Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum.”
― The Essays
― The Essays
“Thus, like Atalanta, they go aside to pick up the golden apple, but meanwhile they interrupt their course, and let the victory escape them. But in the true course of experience, and in carrying it on to the effecting of new works, the divine wisdom and order must be our pattern. Now God on the first day of creation created light only, giving to that work an entire day, in which no material substance was created. So must we likewise from experience of every kind first endeavor to discover true causes and axioms; and seek for experiments of Light, not for experiments of Fruit.”
― The New Organon: True Directions concerning the interpretation of Nature
― The New Organon: True Directions concerning the interpretation of Nature
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