" For myself I found that I was fitted for nothing so 

 well as for the study of Truth ; ... as being gifted by 

 nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to 

 meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to reconsider, care- 

 fulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man 

 that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, 

 and that hates every kind of imposture. So I thought my 

 nature had a kind of familiarity and relationship with 

 Truth." Bacon (Proem to the Interpretatio Natures). 



