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The part played by deduction in science is greater than Bacon supposed. Often, when a hypothesis has to be tested, there is a long deductive journey from the hypothesis to some consequence that can be tested by observation. Usually the deduction is mathematical, and in this respect Bacon underestimated the importance of mathematics in scientific in
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pride. Your science is beautiful, and necessary, and invincible; but you accomplish little by enlightening the mind if you do not cure the eternal wound of the heart.
Frederick Brown • For the Soul of France
I compared the cause with the effect, and they seemed disproportioned to each other.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Famous statesman Benjamin Franklin was a terrible writer when he was a teenager. He decided to do something about his problem. He took pieces of excellent writing and jotted down a word or two of the key idea of some of the sentences. Then he tried to re-create the sentences from his head, just using the key ideas as hints. By checking his sentence
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SPINOZA (1634-77) is the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers. Intellectually, some others have surpassed him, but ethically he is supreme.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
“Her intellectual gifts do but minister to a moral character that is the noblest and best balanced I have ever met with in life.”
Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
He conceived, however, that for the achievement of the great results at which he aimed, money and prestige were necessary; and he worked hard for both.
Francis Bacon • The Essays
The empirical method used by Bacon emphasized a cycle: observations should lead to a hypothesis, which should then be tested by precise experiments, which would then be used to refine the original hypothesis. Bacon also recorded and reported his experiments in precise detail so that others could independently replicate and verify them.