"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. Do not rely on conventional authority, but find truth through observation and experience."
Today's Question
Is the reason you believe a fact to be true because it is the word of an 'authorized authority', or because you verified it yourself?
The Pioneer Who Met His End Observing a Frozen Chicken
Bacon rejected abstract dogmas and conventional authority, advocating for the acquisition of knowledge through observation and experiment (Empiricism).
In the winter of 1626, he stuffed a chicken with snow to see if it would preserve the meat. He caught a cold during this experiment and died of pneumonia days later. His commitment to verification became a symbol of scientific inquiry.