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knowledge is power
a. knowledge is power.Cf. Bacon Meditationes Sacræ (1597) sig. E3v, ‘Nam & ipsa scientia potestas est’.
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1598 F. Bacon Ess. f. 27v Knowledge it selfe is a power whereby he [sc. God] knoweth.]
1693 R. South Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock's Bk. xi. 369 To say, That in Men Knowledge and Power are Commensurate; nay, That Knowledge is Power.
1806 B. Rush Let. 25 Nov. (1951) II. 935 Perhaps Lord Bacon laid the foundation in part of their madness by the well-known aphorism that ‘knowledge is power’.
1836 T. Jarrold Instinct & Reason 137 Knowledge is power, and power implies existence.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. ii. iii. 107 He..said half aloud,—‘Well, knowledge is power!’
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 89 The maxim that knowledge is power is true only where knowledge is the main thing wanted.
1943 Sci. & Mech. Spring 18/1 Zooming demands for technical books of many kinds..bear witness to the truth of that ancient copy-book maxim, ‘Knowledge is power’.
1953 Encounter Oct. 58/1 While the Communists agree that knowledge is power, they are persuaded that they are already in essential possession of both.
2006 New Scientist 25 Nov. 52/2 If knowledge is power, then today everyone has enormous power.
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