> [!cite] > Bacon, Francis. ‘Book I: Aphorisms, 4–11’, in *Novum organum; with, The Great Instauration*. Translated and edited by Peter Urbach and John Gibson. Open Court, 1994. Internet Archive, <https://archive.org/embed/novumorganum0000baco_t7v4>. --- ‘The subtlety of Nature is far greater than that of the sense and the understanding, so that all our beautiful speculations and guesses and controversies are absurd, only there is no one at hand to observe this fact.’ [[Bacon. 'Novum organum; with, The Great Instauration', trans. Urbach and Gibson, 1994|(Bacon 1994, 45)]] ^74031d