The more you know, the less you need.
Empiricism, scientific method
The more you know, the less you need.
Empiricism, scientific method
Not directly found in his major works, but a common paraphrase of his ideas about knowledge and necessity.
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"For the mind is not a tabula rasa upon which impressions are made, but rather a wax tablet upon which impressions are made, and which retains them for a time."
Controversial"Silence is the virtue of fools."
Shocking"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."
Controversial"The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds."
Strange & Unusual"The method of discovery and proof, whether by the senses or by the mind, is one and the same; and it is only by a right method of discovery that we can hope for a right method of proof."
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