The doctrine of those who have denied that certainty could be attained at all, has some agreement with my way of proceeding at the... first setting out; but they end in being infinitely separated and opposed. For the holders of that doctrine assert simply that nothing can be known; I also assert that not much can be known in nature by the way which is now in use. But then they go on to destroy the authority of the senses and understanding; whereas I proceed to devise helps for the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commande...d must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature: what he does and what he knows is only what he has observed of nature's orde...r in fact or in thought; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 in ...the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »