He was, above all, a man who experimented: who despised the prejudice and book learning of the Aristotelians, who put his questions to nature instead of to the ancients, and who drew his conclusions fearlessly.
首先是个实验工作者,
蔑视亚里士多德学派的偏见和空洞的书本知识,
向自然界而不是向古人提出问题,并大胆地得出结论。