It is from long experience chiefly that we are to expect the most certain rules of practice, yet it is withal to be remembered, that observations, and to put us upon the most probable means of improving any art, is to get the best insight we can into the nature and properties of those things which we are desirous to cultivate and improve.


Vegetable Staticks, The Conclusion (p. 214), The Scientific Book Guild. 1961

Stephen Hales Quotes

It is from long experience chiefly that we are to expect the most certain rules of practice, yet it is withal to be remembered, that observations,...

It is from long experience chiefly that we are to expect the most certain rules of practice, yet it is withal to be remembered, that observations,...

It is from long experience chiefly that we are to expect the most certain rules of practice, yet it is withal to be remembered, that observations,...

It is from long experience chiefly that we are to expect the most certain rules of practice, yet it is withal to be remembered, that observations,...