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Quotation from Novum Organum by Francis Bacon
“The former like ants only heap up and use their store, the latter like spiders spin out their own webs”
Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism XCV, trans. Joseph Devey (ed.), 1902
Empirics and dogmatists compared to insects, before Bacon offers the bee as the model for true philosophy.
Citation: "The former like ants only heap up and use their store, the latter like spiders spin out their own webs" — Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism XCV, trans. Joseph Devey (ed.), 1902. (id novum-organum-q7)
Portrait: Portrait of Francis Bacon., Paul van Somer I / Formerly attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger, Public domain.
