“There is no hope of any major increase in scientific knowledge by grafting or adding the new on top of the old,” Bacon declared in his book The New Logic, published in 1620. “The restoration of the sciences must start from the bottom-most foundations – unless we prefer to go round in perpetual circles at a contemptibly slow rate.”

“There is no hope of any major increase in scientific knowledge by grafting or adding the new on top of the old,” Bacon declared in his book The New Logic, published in 1620. “The restoration of the sciences must start from the bottom-most foundations – unless we prefer to go round in perpetual circles at a contemptibly slow rate.”

— Tom Standage