“ For no perfect discovery can be made upon a flat or a level; neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science. ”
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605). copy citation
| Author | Francis Bacon |
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| Source | The Advancement of Learning |
| Topic | discovery science |
| Date | 1605 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5500/5500-h/5500-h.htm |
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“Another error which doth succeed that which we last mentioned is, that after the distribution of particular arts and sciences, men have abandoned universality, or philosophia prima, which cannot but cease and stop all progression. For no perfect discovery can be made upon a flat or a level; neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
(6) Another error hath proceeded from too great a reverence, and a kind of adoration of the mind and understanding of man; by means whereof, men have withdrawn themselves too much from the contemplation of nature, and the observations of experience, and have tumbled up and down in their own reason and conceits.”
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