Nature was no longer a sphinx asking man riddles; it was man that did the asking, and Nature, now, that he put to the torture until she gave him the answer to his questions.


An Autobiography (p. 78), Oxford University Press. 1939

R. G. Collingwood Quotes

Nature was no longer a sphinx asking man riddles; it was man that did the asking, and Nature, now, that he put to the torture until she gave him the...

Nature was no longer a sphinx asking man riddles; it was man that did the asking, and Nature, now, that he put to the torture until she gave him the...

Nature was no longer a sphinx asking man riddles; it was man that did the asking, and Nature, now, that he put to the torture until she gave him the...

Nature was no longer a sphinx asking man riddles; it was man that did the asking, and Nature, now, that he put to the torture until she gave him the...