Showing posts with label Francis Bacon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Francis Bacon. Show all posts

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Where to Begin (a "Truth Project" worthy of the name)? (#4)


If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, v, 8. [Link on the right is to a free Kindle version - help yourself]

Over the years, my thinking on why I should bother have developed and gotten clearer.  Like most pithy sayings, Francis Bacon's overstates the case.  Still, I like it.