If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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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All things are ungraspable.
-- Pyrrho
Color exists by convention, sweet by convention, bitter by convention; in reality there are only atoms and void.
-- Democritus
I know that I know nothing.
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You must learn all things: both the steadfast heart of well-rounded Truth and the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true trust.
-- Parmenides
For thinking and Being are the same.
-- Parmenides
Imagine prisoners chained underground since childhood, seeing only shadows on a wall and taking them for reality.
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