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Mechanical arts improve with time while sciences decline from their first authors
Drawn from what Francis Bacon said
What Francis Bacon actually said
- Francis Bacon English philosopher, lawyer and statesman (1561 to 1626)
For hence it hath come, that in arts mechanical the first deviser comes shortest, and time addeth and perfecteth; but in sciences the first author goeth furthest, and time leeseth and corrupteth.
Where this was said
↗The Advancement of Learning (1605)gutenberg.org
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