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His vision of the New Atlantis is entertaining.. an unfinished book on a utopian society with great morals, built around scientific progress and development. I can see why this was inspiring to Bacon.
The essays are interesting, but they’re rather hard to read. Still, intriguing perspectives from an intriguing guy.
Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator -Francis Bacon
The principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce -Francis Bacon
The essays are interesting, but they’re rather hard to read. Still, intriguing perspectives from an intriguing guy.
Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator -Francis Bacon
The principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce -Francis Bacon
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