The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays …

Francis Bacon
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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. ✨ Francis Bacon (2012). The Great Instauration, p.33, Simon and Schuster
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