There are three types of knowledge wielders, says Bacon. First, there is the ant who is the encyclopedist who gathers information from all around the world and he learns everything he cans and he piles it up into a great big pile and he makes an anthill and he sits on top, but all he does is assemble it. A beautiful library. Nothing comes from it. The second type is the system weaver. the spider who spins elaborate webs of beautiful intricate logical theory in which you admire them and you can get entranced and in and ins snared in them easily because they’re so beautiful they’re almost hypnotic. And the third kind says bacon is the honeybee who gathering from among the fruits of nature processes what he gathers through the organ of his own being to produce something which is sweet and useful for humankind. And that is the scientist. And with this rhetorical call and with Francis Bacon’s portrait on the title page, the English Academy of Sciences is founded and starts publishing and the standard
[00:01:00] switches over from you are not a great achiever because you built the dome. You are a great achiever because you worked out how it can be done and you shared that sweet and useful thing with all of humankind.