" 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, carefulness 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 Naturse.) 



