arundelo comments on Rationality quotes: October 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arundelo 06 October 2010 09:28:59PM 5 points [-]

It looks like this is actually a quote from Carolyn Merchant's The Death of Nature; only the parts in quotation marks are Bacon's words, taken from "The Great Instauration", "The Masculine Birth of Time", and "De Dignitate".

Comment author: RobinZ 07 October 2010 12:20:10AM 2 points [-]

Confirmed from the linked Amazon.com page by searching the preview for "searchers and spies of nature" (no quotes).

Comment author: arundelo 07 October 2010 01:14:15AM 1 point [-]

That's exactly what I did! (And looked up the sources in the endnotes.)