Francis Bacon, in his work “The Four Idols”, talks about the nature of words and their inexact and sometimes confusing meaning. He states that people have a false belief that words specify and explain reason and logic but in reality, they are mere approximations of what exactly takes place. Even though words are used to describe and attribute meaning to things and phenomena, they are also an opposition to our understanding and expression, limiting the definition of concepts, thoughts and ideas. There are two types of words, those that describe something far from explaining and true understanding-things that are not human made and there are words that imprecisely define everything that is present in the world. The descriptions and meanings of reality are very vague, in the end, being very individual to the situation that is taking place. Stephen Jay Gould writes about “Nonmoral Nature” of the world and its seeming cruelty. This is true only from the perspective of humans and our limited understanding of the natural order and the living things that exist in the world. People have long wondered, what is the reason for such cruel things to exist in nature, and the answer lies in the fact that there is no “human” reasonable explanation, as it is nature that defines its existence. In reality, it is not cruel at all because it is the way things are and always will be and the fact that it does exist, means that it must be and the question “why” is simply out of place. There is no real answer in human terms because people are limited in their understanding. He mentions an example of ichneumons, how they lay their larvae on other insects, inside or outside and use the insect as food, which eventually dies. This is far from cruel, as it is natural. Both Francis Bacon and Stephen Jay Gould question the nature of things in the world and the human understanding of the concepts that are all around. The common theme that is shared by both thinkers is how human understanding of the world is different from the reality of things and true meaning and reasons for existence. Often, people mistake their own conceptualizations and ideas, as being universally true and attributive to all things that are. But in reality, human thinking and morals are much different from those that exist in nature. Francis Bacon explains this by bringing up the examples of concepts and words, to which people attribute their own limited explanations, without really figuring out and focusing on the real properties of the concepts and subjects. Thus, people believe that their understanding of the surrounding world is the only true one, which defines it in certain frames and reasonable criteria. Stephen Jay Gould talks about the same limits of human generalizations and the nature of things. He brings up an example of the parasitic wasp that paralyzes its victim in order for the offspring to slowly feed on a still living insect, eventually killing it. This fact is looked at from human perspective and human qualities are attributed to insects and nature itself. But this is incorrect, as human understanding cannot be applied to something as great as nature. Both Bacon and Gould are correct because it is simply impossible for humans to comprehend a