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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Knowledge is Power about Penang, Satvinder, Malaysia.Her with the genre: Humor & Entertainment, Puzzles & Games.
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conversations.value: Satvinder kaur was born in Penang, Malaysia.Her primary,secondary and tertiary education was in Penang, and later she went on to teach History in a secondary school in Penang. She moved to Vancouver, Canada in 1990 but her passion for reading about ancient civilizations and cultures around the world continued. The quizzes in this story reflect the wide knowledge and interests Satvinder has about different places, their historical and cultural diversities. Currently she is working in Health care. Here she had first hand experience on the importance of keeping mentally active. Her interests and work experience has motivated her to write this quiz story which she feels will test your knowledge,entertain you and keep your brain alert at the same time.
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conversations.value: Her interests and work experience has motivated her to write this quiz story which she feels will test your knowledge,entertain you and keep your brain alert at the same time.Her primary,secondary and tertiary education was in Penang, and later she went on to teach History in a secondary school in Penang. She moved to Vancouver, Canada in 1990 but her passion for reading about ancient civilizations and cultures around the world continued. The quizzes in this story reflect the wide knowledge and interests Satvinder has about different places, their historical and cultural diversities. Currently she is working in Health care. Here she had first hand experience on the importance of keeping mentally active.Satvinder kaur was born in Penang, Malaysia.
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conversations.value: Knowledge is Power
  Even so, after the succession of James I (1604), Bacon responded to 'common speech' against his behaviour by publishing an apology for his involvement in the prosecution of his former patron and friend. Bacon's defence of his actions was the only one possible: that he put his duty and loyalty to the Queen above his friendship. Indeed, he wrote:
  These are fine words, but they glibly overlook the fact that Essex clearly did not intend to depose or harm the Queen and that, had Bacon let the main prosecutor, Sir Edward Coke, do all the talking, his incompetence might have told in Essex's favour. Samuel Johnson once said that patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel. It seems hard not to think of Bacon's claims of loyalty to the crown to be a similar refuge or, worse, another attempt to win favour and preferment from the Crown even at the expense of his friend's life.
  One way or another, Elizabeth's reign was a series of disappointments for Bacon. Not only had he failed to achieve any official place in affairs of state, but his ambitions to reform natural philosophy and to kindle a light in nature for the benefit of mankind, or even for the commonwealth of England, received no encouragement whatsoever. Under her successor, James I, things certainly improved with regard to state preferments. Bacon was knighted in 1603 and further noticed by James for his parliamentarian work in connection with the union of the Crowns of Scotland and England (James was already King of Scotland). Bacon finally became solicitor general in 1607.
  The following year he was also able, at last, to take up the post and the salary of the Clerk of the Council in the Star Chamber. His fortunes improved dramatically after the death of Robert Cecil, the Earl of Salisbury, Lord Burghley's son, who like his father rose to be Elizabeth's secretary of state and who became James's chief minister. The Cecils had formed a rival faction at court in the days when Essex was the Queen's favourite, and Cecil continued to hinder Bacon's advancement until his death. But Bacon did not rely merely on the removal of an obstacle. He also ingratiated himself with the King's rising favourite, Sir George Villiers, later Duke of Buckingham.
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conversations.value: On the face of it, the discussion reads like a defence of atomism against charges of atheism. Enlightenment thinkers turned the story on its head, however. Since atomism had always been associated with atheism, Bacon's insistence that Aristotelianism (which had been adopted as the official natural philosophy of the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages) provided better support for atheism than atomism was a clear signal that atheism, no matter which natural philosophy you subscribe to, must be true.
  But the claim of Bacon's that has often been presented as most irreligious in its import is his insistence that natural philosophy and religion should always be kept separate. Bacon insisted that the study of the natural world had been blighted by 'a troublesome and intractable enemy' – namely, 'blind immoderate religious zeal'. This could be seen, he explained, not only in ancient times, but also at present:
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conversations.value: This was the ultimate endorsement. Newton's was a name with real clout, and the future of the Baconian method was now assured. When the leading thinkers of the French Enlightenment recognised the power and potential of Newton's achievement, they looked more closely at the culture from which his work had emerged. Recognising first of all Newton's older contemporaries – the experimental scientist Robert Boyle and the philosopher John Locke – they soon noted the influence on them of Francis Bacon.
  Enlightenment intellectuals were entirely optimistic about the new science and the changes it would bring to all aspects of human living. This makes Bacon a particularly suitable hero for the Enlightenment. He too was always optimistic about his plan to reform the world of learning, and about the benefits that would accrue to mankind if knowledge of nature should be pursued for practical ends, so that human knowledge and human power met in one.
  It is a final irony of Bacon's thought that his optimism even displaced his belief in induction. To learn from induction is to learn from past experience, but Bacon's optimism saw a way to avoid an inductive despair. 'The blacker the past', he wrote, 'the brighter the hope for the future' (Thoughts and Conclusions). After all, he explained, 'if men had been on the right path all those ages past and yet had got no further, what hope could there be?' As things are, we know that we just have to try to find the right path, where human knowledge and human power, and we must add, human desire, meet in one. 'Not to try', he believed, 'is a greater hazard than to fail... Not to try is to forgo the prospect of measureless good.'
  There's no substitute for reading an important historical figure's own words, and this is especially true of Francis Bacon, who wrote with such wonderful style.