For also knowledge itself is power.
For also knowledge itself is power.
Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far, and relaxed too much.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge itself is power. Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall But in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science) for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.
For knowledge itself is power.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
For knowledge, too, is itself power.
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