"Reading supplements the deficiency of nature and experience supplements the deficiency of reading", which means that people are not born to know everything, but learn knowledge through reading in order to know the world; However, knowledge alone is not enough. We should not confine ourselves to the knowledge in books, but also gain experience in practice to make up for the congenital deficiency.

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This sentence comes from the English philosopher, writer and scientist Francis Bacon (156 1- 1626) in his book On Reading. The original English text is:? They perfect nature and experience-because natural abilities are like natural plants, which need pruning through learning; And the research itself does give too many directions unless they are limited by experience.

Reading makes up for the deficiency of nature, and experience makes up for the deficiency of reading. Talent is like natural flowers and plants. After reading it, you will know how to trim and transplant. As the book shows, if you don't imitate experience, it will be too big and useless.

Talking about Reading is an essay written by Francis Bacon, a British philosopher, writer and scientist (156 1- 1626).

In this article, he strongly advocates that "reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people witty, mathematics makes people careful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and learning logic rhetoric makes people eloquent (history makes people wise; Poet wit; Mathematics is subtle; Natural philosophy is profound; Moral and solemn; Logic and rhetoric, eloquent).

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