Francis Bacon on Knowledge
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“I have taken all knowledge to be my province.”
“Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.”
“Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.”
“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”
“I find that even those that have sought knowledge for itself, and not for benefit, or ostentation, or any practicable enablement in the course of their life, have nevertheless propounded to themselves a wrong mark, namely, satisfaction, which men call truth, and not operation. For as in the courts and services of princes and states, it is a much easier matter to give satisfaction than to do the business; so in the inquiring of causes and reasons it is much easier to find out such causes as will satisfy the mind of man and quiet objections, than such causes as will direct him and give him light to new experiences and inventions.”