Bacon, writing at the down of modern science, argued that experimenters “are like ant; they only collect and use,” whereas logicians “resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance.”
“But the bee takes a middle course,” Bacon wrote. “It gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digest it by a power of its own.”
Were Bacon alive today he might compare global science and technology to fields of wildflowers fertilized by bees - astonishing in their variety, yet each part testifying to the nature of the whole.
— Timothy Ferris-
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