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For å beseire naturen må man lystre den.
Francis Bacon
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Novum Organum (1620), aforisme 3.
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Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.