6 ideas
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
16745 | No one even knows the nature and properties of a fly - why it has that colour, or so many feet [Bacon,R] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |