Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.

— Francis Bacon, Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (1603)

Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=xgE9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133

From Valerius Terminus (ca. 1603).

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