Francis Bacon — "The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth, is the sovereign good of human natu…"
The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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"It is a thing that ever proveth, that a man's fortune is the fruit of his own virtue."
"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
"The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel."
"The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain."
"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
About Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
English philosopher whose Novum Organum (1620) laid out the inductive method that became the foundation of modern empirical science. Closely associated with Galileo Galilei (contemporary scientific revolutionary). For an intellectual contrast, see Aristotelian scholasticism, the syllogistic, deductive philosophical tradition that ruled medieval universities — Bacon's Novum Organum literally means 'new instrument' — the explicit replacement for Aristotle's Organon. The entire scientific revolution turned on which logic was correct: deduction from authority or induction from observation.
The standard scholarly entry points to Francis Bacon's work: Lisa Jardine (Queen Mary University of London, Renaissance scholar) — Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse (1974); Jonathan Marwil (Michigan, intellectual historian) — The Trials of Counsel: Francis Bacon in 1621 (1976); Perez Zagorin (Rochester, historian of ideas) — Francis Bacon (1998). These are the works graduate seminars cite when teaching Francis Bacon.