
MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Novum Organum: - Página 5 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=j13FDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA5, Sir Francis Bacon - Jazzybee Verlag, 1620, ISBN 3849692086, 9783849692087, 190 páginas