Continuing to write on the subject of a state university, Jefferson referred to the power of knowledge in an letter to John Taylor:. Knowledge is power Quotation. An article courtesy of the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia.
Click for more. In an letter to George Ticknor, Jefferson equated knowledge with power, safety, and happiness: [T]his last establishment [a state university] will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our legislature who meet within a week from this time. John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations , 10th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. Frontispiece by Wenceslaus Hollar of Sprat's History of the Royal-Society depicting Bacon in the foreground on the right as one of the founding influences of the Society.
The expression, "knowlege is power," traditionally attributed to Sir Francis Bacon , is not literally what Bacon wrote. According to the Wikipedia article, Scientia potentia est , the closest thing that Bacon wrote to the Latin phrase was "statuuntque latiores terminos scientiae Dei quam potestatis, vel potius ejus partis potestatis Dei nam et ipsa scientia potestas est qua scit, quam ejus qua movet et agit: ut praesciat quaedam otiose, quae non praedestinet et praeordinet ," in his Meditationes sacrae This phrase was translated as: "The sciences are small powers; because not eminent, and therefore, not acknowledged in any man; nor are at all, but in a few, and in them, but of a few things.
For science is of that nature, as none can understand it to be, but such as in a good measure have attained it". The writers of the Wikipedia article indicated that the exact phrase " scientia potentia est " was written for the first time in the version of the work Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes , who was a secretary to Bacon as a young man.
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