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Francis Bacon1561–1626

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this — that men despair and think things impossible.

Francis Bacon on science

Novum Organum (1620), Book I, Aphorism 92

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