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Novum Organum (1620)
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There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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January 22, 1561
Died:
April 9, 1626
(aged 65)
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