scientia ipsa potentia est Phrase
Meaning:
knowledge itself is power
Comment
Stated originally by Sir Francis Bacon in Meditationes Sacrae (1597), which in modern times is often paraphrased as scientia est potestas or scientia potentia est (knowledge is power).
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