Quote#Science & Reason
Bacon in his instruction tells us that the scientific student ought…
Quote byMichael Faraday · 1791–1867
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lecture notes of 1858, quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) by Bence Jones, Vol. 2, p. 404.
English (original)
Bacon in his instruction tells us that the scientific student ought not to be as the ant, who gathers merely, nor as the spider who spins from her own bowels, but rather as the bee who both gathers and produces.
— Michael Faraday
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