The original sentence should be: Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people clear, mathematics makes people precise, physics makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, logic and rhetoric make people eloquent——[English ] Bacon

From: "On Learning"

Author: Bacon

About the author: Francis Bacon (January 22, 1561-4, 1626) September 9) British modern materialist philosophers, thinkers and scientists were called "the true ancestors of British materialism and the entire modern experimental science" by Marx. Born into a noble family, he was the youngest son of Sir Douglas Bacon, Lord Privy Seal and Lord Chancellor (the highest legal office in the kingdom). Later he also became chancellor in 1618. In his later years, he separated from political activities and specialized in scientific and philosophical research. He was the ideological representative of the new aristocracy. He opposed the divine right of monarchy and unlimited monarchy, and advocated the restriction of royal power. He supported Puritanism and advocated reform, but opposed revolution. Regarding medieval scholasticism, he proposed that the misunderstandings and prejudices it caused to people (which he called falsehoods) must be eliminated in order to clear the way for understanding and science. He inherited the ancient materialist tradition, recognized that nature is material, and believed that the smallest unit that constitutes all things is the real molecule, that is, the simple nature of things, which is limited and unchanging. Thousands of different things are composed of different arrangements and combinations of it. Movement is the most important inherent characteristic of matter. Movement is regular and its forms are diverse. He called the laws and regulations of the movement of things form. The task of science is to discover forms and thereby gain freedom of action in order to conquer nature. Put forward the slogan "knowledge is power". He put forward the basic principles of materialist empiricism and believed that feeling is the beginning of knowledge, it is completely reliable and the source of all knowledge. He attaches great importance to the role of scientific experiments in understanding and believes that experiments must be used to make up for the shortcomings of the senses and deeply reveal the mysteries of nature. He attaches great importance to induction, emphasizes its role and significance, and believes that it is the only correct method, but it denies that the role of deduction is one-sided. He transplanted the isolated and static research methods in natural science to philosophy, resulting in limitations unique to modern European philosophy. His philosophy was theologically incomplete, and he advocated double truth and recognized religious dogma such as the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. His materialist philosophy had a great influence on the development of modern philosophy. His major works include: "New Tools", "Academic Progress", "New Atlantic Island", etc. The representative work "New Tools" has epoch-making significance and widespread influence in the history of modern philosophy. Philosophers regard it as a pioneer in the transformation from ancient materialism to modern materialism.