"An experiment can replace thinking as little as reading. Pure empiricism is to thinking as eating food is to digesting and assimilating it. Even if empiricism boasts that it is the only one thanks to whose discoveries it has increased the progress of human knowledge, it brings with it the situation in which the mouth would boast that the body owes its existence to it alone.
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An experiment can replace thinking as little as reading. Pure empiricism is to thinking as eating food is to digesting and assimilating it. Even if empiricism boasts that it is the only one thanks to whose discoveries it has increased the progress of human knowledge, it brings with it the situation in which the mouth would boast that the body owes its existence to it alone.
""Un experiment poate înlocui gândirea la fel de puțin ca și lectura. Empirismul pur se raportează la gândire la fel cum consumarea mâncării se raportează la digerarea și asimilarea ei. Chiar dacă empirismul se mândrește că el este singurul datorită descoperirilor căruia a sporit progresul cunoașterii umane, aceasta aduce cu situația în care gura s-ar lăuda că trupul își datorează numai ei existența."