 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 352 pagina’s
...vindication, and it may be detected in such a sentence as that which I have already quoted from the Novum Organum : " The sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution." To the same train of thought belongs the bold, but sophistical, vindication of the Prince's early course... | |
 | Robert K. Merton - 1973 - 639 pagina’s
...splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby; for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution. And for myself, I am not raising a capitol or pyramid to the pride of man, but laying a foundation... | |
 | Robert Proctor - 1991 - 364 pagina’s
...the fruits of science before they are ripe. It is not that the practical arts are ignoble pursuits. The sun "enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution" therefrom. Indeed, "the roads to human power and to human knowledge lie close together, and are very... | |
 | Aileen Kelly, Reader in the Department of Slavonic Studies Aileen M Kelly - 1998 - 424 pagina’s
...fellow scholars not to exclude "things that are mean and low" from the field of their investigations: "The sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes not pollution." 20 Bacon's belief that progress in knowledge was made by purging the human mind of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 pagina’s
...splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby. For the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution. And for myself, I am not raising a capitol or pyramid to the pride of man, but laying a foundation... | |
 | John Durham Peters - 2010 - 318 pagina’s
...ultimately redeemable practice. Francis Bacon, in his role as spokesman for modern science, put it well: "the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution."16 Milton thought it no shame for a 14. Jonathan Sawday, The Emblazoned Body: Dissection... | |
 | 64 pagina’s
...splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby; for the sun enters the sewer no less than the palace, yet takes no pollution. And for myself, I am not raising a capitol or pyramid to the pride of man, but laying a foundation... | |
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And for things that are mean or even filthy— things which (as Pliny says) must be introduced with an apology— such things, no less than the most splendid and costly, must be admitted into natural history. Nor is natural history polluted thereby, for... 
