Book, Aphorism

 1        1, XVIII   |                        XVIII~The discoveries which have hitherto been
 2        1, XXXIII  |    either of my method or of the discoveries to which it leads, by means
 3        1, LXXI    |          the foundation of Greek discoveries. Now the wisdom of the Greeks
 4        1, LXXIII  |      instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion
 5        1, LXXIII  |       they call it, have but few discoveries to show, and those trifling
 6        1, LXXV    |        the weakness of their own discoveries into a calumny of nature
 7        1, LXXXI   |         life be endowed with new discoveries and powers. But of this
 8        1, LXXXIV  |         the narrow limits of old discoveries.~And with regard to authority,
 9        1, LXXXV   |          rest satisfied with the discoveries already made, but also an
10        1, LXXXV   |   inventions. And yet these very discoveries which we have just mentioned
11        1, LXXXV   | alchemists have made a good many discoveries and presented men with useful
12        1, LXXXVIII|       speaking, in mechanics old discoveries pass for new if a man does
13        1, XCIX    |       once — that if many useful discoveries have been made by accident
14        1, XCIX    | anticipated.~CX~But we have also discoveries to show of another kind,
15        1, XCIX    |         principles upon which my discoveries rest are false and doubtful.
16        1, XCIX    |     business in hand whether the discoveries that shall now be made were
17        1, XCIX    |          the first time. For new discoveries must be sought from the
18        1, XCIX    |         must have been some true discoveries to correct the false. But
19        1, XCIX    |       the introduction of famous discoveries appears to hold by far the
20        1, XCIX    |        just. For the benefits of discoveries may extend to the whole
21        1, XCIX    |      violence and confusion; but discoveries carry blessings with them,
22        1, XCIX    |         or sorrow to any.~Again, discoveries are as it were new creations,
23        1, XCIX    |       virtue and consequences of discoveries, and these are to be seen
24        1, XCIX    |    affairs than these mechanical discoveries.~Further, it will not be
25        1, XCIX    |         discovery may advance as discoveries advance.~APHORISMS~[BOOK
26        1, XCIX    |      cases) he may arrive at new discoveries in reference to substances
27        1, XXXI    |         Hence it is that all the discoveries which can take rank among
28        1, XXXIX   |     phenomena — all indeed noble discoveries, so far as we may safely
29        1, XXXIX   |  experiment stops with these few discoveries, and many other things equally