Quotes from Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature — Francis Bacon
1561–1626 England
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Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.
Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (1603)
It is not the pleasure of curiosity, nor the quiet of resolution, nor the raising of the spirit, nor victory of wit, nor faculty of speech (…) that are the true ends of knowledge (…), but it is a restitution and reinvesting, in great part, of man to the sovereignty and power, for whensoever he shall be able to call the creatures by their true names, he shall again command them.
Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (1603)