Roger Bacon: “On Experimental Science”

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Roger Bacon:“On Experimental Science”
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844223.book-part-012

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Abstract

There are two ways of acquiring knowledge, one through reason, the other by experiment. Argument reaches a conclusion and compels us to admit it, but it neither makes us certain nor so annihilates doubt that the mind rests calm in the intuition of truth, unless it finds this certitude by way of experience. Thus many have arguments toward attainable facts, but because they have not experienced them, they overlook them and neither avoid a harmful nor follow a beneficial course.

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