Even the effects already discovered are due to chance and experiment, rather than to the sciences; for our present sciences are nothing more than peculiar arrangements of matters already discovered, and not methods for discovery or plans for new operations.


In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 30), Novum Organum


Even the effects already discovered are due to chance and experiment, rather than to the sciences; for our present sciences are nothing more than...

Even the effects already discovered are due to chance and experiment, rather than to the sciences; for our present sciences are nothing more than...

Even the effects already discovered are due to chance and experiment, rather than to the sciences; for our present sciences are nothing more than...

Even the effects already discovered are due to chance and experiment, rather than to the sciences; for our present sciences are nothing more than...