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The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Thomas Hobbes
Knowledge, Science, Power
Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1839). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.7

By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

Thomas Hobbes
Knowledge, Science, Two
Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.12

Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea natura est, ut esse intelligi non possit, nisi ab illis qui sunt scientia praediti.

Thomas Hobbes
Knowledge, Science, Power
Thomas Hobbes (1966). “Opera philosophica quae latine scripsit omnia: in unum corpusnunc primum collecta studio et labore Gulielmi Molesworth”

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

Thomas Hobbes
Truth, Knowledge, Math
Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

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