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Francis Bacon - New Atlantis (1624)

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The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon
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Born: January 22, 1561
Died: April 9, 1626 (aged 65)
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