...the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers...by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true busmess of philosophy; ' for it neither relies solely nor chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does...

...only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its...history and mechanical experiments and lay it up in memory whole, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore from a closer and...

...the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers...but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. (NO I.XCV; emphasis CS). Here, Bacon counters a static knowledge, which gets caught in its own net...

...method. In The New Orijanon, Bacon likened his ideal natural philosopher to the bee, which collects "its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field" and digests it "by a power of its own." In his Discourse on Method, Descartes set forth as a rule that...

...mechanical experiments and stores it in the memory whole, as it finds it. Like bees, the true philosophy takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of garden and the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own (IV, 92-3; cf. Ill, 616)....

...reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middling course; it gathers its material from the flowers of...field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.4 Thus, the modern age abounds in the anthills of the fact-finding empiricist and the figments...

...only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its...transforms and digests it by a power of its own.” 4 Where the mechanists applied a single mechanistic method to natural phenomena, Bacon advocated observations...

...substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of...Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy [science]; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the...

...make cobwebs out of their own subsrance. But the bee rakes a middle course; it gathers its marerial from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but...digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the ttue business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor...

...make cobwebs out of their own subsrance. But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers irs maretial from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digesrs it by a power of irs own. Not unlike this is the ttue business of philosophy; for it neither...