Knowledge is power

[194] Knowledge is power (engl., spr. nóllidsch is pauer, »Wissen ist Macht«), ein vielgebrauchter, von Francis Bacon (in den »Religious meditations«, 1598) herrührender Ausspruch.

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Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Band 11. Leipzig 1907, S. 194.
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