"What does reading history make people, what does reading poetry make people, and what does calculus make people?"

This is a famous saying of British writer Bacon. The full text is: reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people wise, learning mathematics makes people precise, physics makes people profound, ethics makes people noble, and logical rhetoric makes people eloquent. In short, "knowledge can shape a person's character".

Interpretation of famous sayings:

This famous saying discusses the importance of reading and tells us that different books have different benefits. History tells us all the possibilities of the development of human society, thus making people rational. Poetry is thinking in images, full of emotion and literary talent. Reading more poems can make people feel aura. Mathematics needs calculus and must be very careful, thus making people thorough. Physics explains the objective world and makes people profound. Ethics explains the relationship between people, thus making people full of compassion. Logic reveals the connotation of concept, judgment and reasoning, thus making people good at words.

Introduction to bacon

Francis Bacon (156 1- 1626), the first viscount St. Alben (1 St. Alban), was the most important essayist and philosopher in the English Renaissance. British materialist philosopher, the founder of experimental science, the founder of modern induction, and the pioneer of logical organization of scientific research procedures, so although his philosophy is not perfect in many places (such as theological color and remnants of old ideas), he still occupies an important position of never failing. Bacon was praised by Marx as "the true ancestor of British materialism and the whole modern experimental science", "the father of experimental philosophy" and "the direct or perceptual founder of modern natural science", and he was a great pioneer of modern life spirit. His major works include New Tools, On the Progress of Science and The Great Rejuvenation of Learning.

Bacon is a noble child who has experienced many hardships. The complicated and changeable life experience enriched his experience, which was followed by his mature thoughts, profound conversation and rich philosophy. His whole worldview is secular rather than religious (although he firmly believes in God). He is a rationalist rather than a superstitious admirer, an empiricist rather than a sophist; Politically, he is a realist, not a theorist. He once said, "knowledge is power."