arundelo comments on Rationality quotes: October 2010 - Less Wrong
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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".
Confirmed from the linked Amazon.com page by searching the preview for "searchers and spies of nature" (no quotes).
That's exactly what I did! (And looked up the sources in the endnotes.)