 | John Howard Harris - Educators, American - 1926 - 620 pages
...deferentially they question what she has to say. So Bacon taught: "Man as the 474 OTHER ADDRESSES BY DR minister and interpreter of nature does and understands...observations on the order of nature, either with regard to matter or mind, permit him; and he neither knows nor is capable of more." This sentiment revolutionized... | |
 | Education - 1911 - 696 pages
...not to any fault of the teacher himself. Educational Classics franda Bacon (1561-1626) APHOEISMS I. Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. II. The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power. Effects are... | |
 | Marshall Clagett - Science - 1959 - 564 pages
...emulate. They would not have written, as Francis Bacon did, in the opening lines of the Novum Organum: "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power. . . . Knowledge... | |
 | Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - Philosophy - 1991 - 488 pages
...received opinion and prejudices. On this point we should closely look into what Bacon himself had to say. "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." 3 Observations as such, that is, particular experiences, do not help us in understanding nature or... | |
 | Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
..."Man," says the first aphorism of the Novum Organum, as if flinging a challenge to all metaphysics, — "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...as much as his observations on the order of nature . . . permit him; and neither knows nor is capable of more." The predecessors of Socrates were in this... | |
 | Michael Lewis - Psychology - 1998 - 262 pages
...experiments and results."6 In his first book, Novum Organum, Bacon challenged existing metaphysical views: "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...as much as his observations on the order of nature . . . permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." He argued that science must rid itself... | |
 | Gilbert Childs - Education - 1999 - 164 pages
...a mere observer and interpreter of nature — precisely descriptive of today's orthodox scientist: 'Man, as the minister and Interpreter of Nature, does and understands as much as his observation on the Order of Nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permits him, and neither... | |
 | Harris L. Coulter - Medicine - 2001 - 822 pages
...foundations."355 Man must return to the original sources of knowledge: sense-perception and experience: Man as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.3 5 6 Men have hitherto dwelt but little, or rather only slightly touched upon experience, whilst... | |
 | L. Donald Partridge, Lloyd D. Partridge - Medical - 2003 - 520 pages
...nature derives from the philosophy of Sir Francis Bacon, who in 1620 wrote in the Novum Organum that "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." We have built elaborate scientific systems of hypotheses and laws using this empirical approach, and... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann - Knowledge, Sociology of - 2005 - 424 pages
...has begun to be master of himself. Aphorisms on the interpretation of nature and the empire of man 1. MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 2. The unassisted hand, and the understanding left to itself, possess but little power. Effects are... | |
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MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 
