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Philosophers
Francis Bacon
Born 1561 in London, Francis Bacon rose to Lord Chancellor under James I and laid the philosophical foundation of modern science. Author of "Knowledge is power" and the doctrine of the four Idols, his Novum Organum.
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Philosophy is nothing other than the pursuit of nobility and goodness.
-- Gaius Musonius Rufus
It is hard to retain what you learn unless you practice it.
-- Seneca
Educate the children and it will not be necessary to punish the men.
-- Pythagoras
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies.
-- Hypatia
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.
-- Hypatia
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
-- Confucius