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Observation Quotes by Francis Bacon
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt…
- But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things…
- I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at…
- Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding…
- 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…
- Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
- It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to…
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