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Quotation from Novum Organum by Francis Bacon
“Now the empire of man over things is founded on the arts and sciences alone, for nature is only to be commanded by obeying her”
Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism CXXIX, trans. Joseph Devey (ed.), 1902
The close of Bacon's ranking of ambitions, which places enlarging humanity's power over nature above personal or national ambition.
Citation: "Now the empire of man over things is founded on the arts and sciences alone, for nature is only to be commanded by obeying her" — Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism CXXIX, trans. Joseph Devey (ed.), 1902. (id novum-organum-q10)
Portrait: Portrait of Francis Bacon., Paul van Somer I / Formerly attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger, Public domain.
