Personal Experience Is The Basis

A Man May Be Buoyed Up By The Efflation Of His Wild Desires To Brave Any Imaginable Peril; But He Cannot Calmly See One He Loves Braving The Same Peril; Simply Because He Cannot Feel Within Turn That Which Prompts Another. He Sees The Danger, And Feels Not The Power That Is To Overcome It.

Science As We Now Understand The Word Is Of Later Birth. If Its Germinal Origin May Be Traced To The Early Period When Observation, Induction, And Deduction Were First Employed, Its Birth Must Be Referred To That Comparatively Recent Period When The Mind, Rejecting The Primitive Tendency To Seek In Supernatural Agencies For An Explanation Of All External Phenomena, Endeavoured, By A Systematic Investigation Of The Phenomena Themselves To Discover Their Invariable Order And Connection.

Roger_bacon" Title="roger Bacon">roger Bacon Expressed A Feeling Which Afterwards Moved Many Minds, When He Said That If He Had The Power He Would Burn All The Works Of The Stagirite, Since The Study Of Them Was Not Simply Loss Of Time, But Multiplication Of Ignorance. Yet In Spite Of This Outbreak Every Page Is Studded With Citations From Aristotle, Of Whom He Everywhere Speaks In The Highest Admiration.

Remember That Every Drop Of Rain That Falls Bears Into The Bosom Of The Earth A Quality Of Beautiful Fertility.

To His [ Plato's ] Great Disappointment, He Found Anaxagoras Adducing Simple Physical Reasons, Instead Of The Teleological Reasons, Which He Had Expected. Such A Teacher Could No Longer Allure Him.