| 单词 | knowledge is power | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasknowledge is power  a.    knowledge is power.Cf.  Bacon Meditationes Sacræ (1597) sig. E3v, ‘Nam & ipsa scientia potestas est’. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas  | 
	
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