 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 1998 - 444 pages
...substance from flowers and thereby transformed it into honey. “The men of experiment,” he averred, “are like the ant; they only collect and use; the...transforms and digests it by a power of its own.” 4 Where the mechanists applied a single mechanistic method to natural phenomena, Bacon advocated observations... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 pages
...represent them. 95 Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only...business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history... | |
 | Alison Smith, Michael Witty - 2002 - 341 pages
...substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of...Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy [science]; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the... | |
 | Thomas Duddy - 2002 - 392 pages
...Swift would also use in The Battle of the Books, the image of the spider and the bee. Bacon writes: The men of experiment are like the ant; they only...business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 2002 - 562 pages
...and action: Those who have handled the sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only...spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. The bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field,... | |
 | Thomas Duddy - 2002 - 390 pages
...Swifr would also use in The Battle of the Books, the image of the spider and the bee. Bacon wrires: The men of experiment are like the ant; they only...resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own subsrance. But the bee rakes a middle course; it gathers its marerial from the flowers of the garden... | |
 | Thomas Duddy - 2002 - 392 pages
...in The Bastle of the Books, the image ot the spider and the bee. Bacon wtires: The men of expetiment are like the ant; they only collect and use: the reasoners...resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own subsrance. But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers irs maretial from the flowers of the garden... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 pages
...Bacon's bee: whereas ants only "collect and use," and spiders "make cobwebs out of their own substance," the bee "takes a middle course: it gathers its material...Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy." In Emerson's aphorism, "One must be an inventor to read well" — whether one reads books or nature.22... | |
 | Mark I. Lichbach - 2009 - 340 pages
...relativism, or the idea that we are trapped in our own research communities. 31. Bacon argues that "the men of experiment are like the ant; they only...substance. But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers material from the flowers of the garden and the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of... | |
 | Samuel H. Barondes - 2003 - 240 pages
...to depend on strokes of good luck to find important new psychiatric drugs. ii :: Claras ^Prospects The men of experiment are like the ant, they only...cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms... | |
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Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use: the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle... 
