It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from …

Further, it will not be amiss to distinguish the three kinds and, as it were, grades of ambition in mankind. The first is of those who desire to extend their o…

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this - that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its…

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; ref…

One can judge from experiment, or one can blindly accept authority. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all important and theory is merely a convenie…

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together a…