Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Empiricism, scientific method
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"The mind of man is subject to three diseases; namely, to be too credulous, to be too incredulous, or to be too curious."
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