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#Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon · 1561–1626
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Who this is
“The Lord Chancellor of England, disgraced for taking bribes, spent his ruin writing the constitution of modern science — including the first systematic map of the mind's built-in biases.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Human knowledge fails not because nature is hidden but because our minds are warped instruments — so we need a method, and institutions, to correct our biases and put knowledge to work for human benefit.”
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