Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
— Francis Bacon Early Modern

Empiricism, scientific method

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Novum Organum

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1620

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Controversial

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