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."

Classic saying: knowledge is power.

This is a famous saying of Bacon. In Bacon's view, man is the master of nature and can control it. But "to command nature, we must obey nature", that is, we must understand the laws of nature and master scientific knowledge. It is from this perspective that Bacon put forward the famous assertion that "knowledge is power", which has influenced our lives from generation to generation.