Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is a British philosopher and scientist. He strongly advocated that "reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people wise, calculus makes people precise, philosophy makes people profound, ethics makes people cultivated, and logical rhetoric makes people eloquent (history makes people wise, poetry makes people witty, natural philosophy makes people profound, morality makes people solemn, and logical rhetoric makes people capable of reaching things)". He advocated and developed scientific progressive ideas and advocated the slogan of knowledge progress, which has been promoting social progress. This thinker who pursued truth all his life was called "the true ancestor of British materialism and the whole modern experimental science" by Marx. He also put forward many viewpoints in logic, aesthetics and pedagogy. He is the author of New Tools and Essays. The latter has 58 essays, which discuss a wide range of life problems from all angles. They are exquisite and philosophical, and have many readers.
He is the author of Academic Progress (1605) and New Tools (1620). Bacon sharply criticized the scholasticism in the Middle Ages, holding that scholasticism and theology seriously hindered the progress of science, and advocated thoroughly transforming human knowledge, liberating the whole academic culture from scholasticism and realizing great rejuvenation. He believes that science must pursue the causes and laws of natural things. To achieve this goal, it must be based on sensory experience. He put forward the principles of materialism and empiricism, and believed that knowledge and ideas originated from the perceptual world, and sensory experience was the source of all knowledge. In order to acquire scientific knowledge about nature, we must base our knowledge on sensory experience. He also put forward the empirical induction method, which advocated that based on the experimental and observation materials, after analysis, comparison, selection and exclusion, the correct conclusion was finally drawn.
Knowledge is power.