Man Can Learn Nothing Unless He Proceeds

A Contemporary Poet Has Characterized This Sense Of The Personality Of Art And Of The Impersonality Of Science In These Words,-'art Is Myself; Science Is Ourselves. '

In The Philosophic Sense, Observation Shows And Experiment Teaches.

In Teaching Man, Experimental Science Results In Lessening His Pride More And More By Proving To Him Every Day That Primary Causes, Like The Objective Reality Of Things, Will Be Hidden From Him Forever And That He Can Only Know Relations.

As Soon As The Circumstances Of An Experiment Are Well Known, We Stop Gathering Statistics. ... The Effect Will Occur Always Without Exception, Because The Cause Of The Phenomena Is Accurately Defined. Only When A Phenomenon Includes Conditions As Yet Undefined,only When A Phenomenon Includes Conditions As Yet Undefined, Can We Compile Statistics. ... We Must Learn Therefore That We Compile Statistics Only When We Cannot Possibly Help It; For In My Opinion, Statistics Can Never Yield Scientific Truth.

It Is What We Know Already That Often Prevents Us From Learning.