Novum Organum

Novum Organum, Project Gutenberg edition. 3 parts, about 77,332 words, 6 hours of reading. Source edition.

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Human knowledge and human power meet in one, for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced.
Book 1, aphorism 3 · Read it in Aphorisms: Book I on the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man
Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
Book 1, aphorism 129 · Read it in Aphorisms: Book I on the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
Book 1, aphorism 45 · Read it in Aphorisms: Book I on the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man
There are two ways of seeking truth, he says: one flies from a few particulars straight to the highest axioms, and the other climbs from particulars to the general by unbroken degrees, which has not yet been tried.
Book 1, aphorism 19 · Read it in Aphorisms: Book I on the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man
To find the form of heat he draws up three tables, one of cases where heat is present, one of similar cases where it is absent, and one where it varies in degree, and then rejects every candidate the tables exclude.
Book 2, aphorisms 11 to 20 · Read it in Aphorisms: Book II on the Interpretation of Nature, or the Reign of Man

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