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"The men of
experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; 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 of the garden and field,
but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. 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 matter which it gathers from natural
history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds
it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and disgested. Therefore, from a
closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the
rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped."
Bacon, Francis
[Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Liberal Arts Press, Inc., New York, p 93.]
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