“Bacon felt very strongly that one of the values of science was in its fruits, that it could do a great deal to lessen human suffering. As we know, it can also do other things of which we are painfully aware at the present time. As Bacon was never tired of saying, knowledge without love can be profoundly corrupt and even evil. He blamed philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, not only because they lacked the humility to study objective facts and base their reasoning upon those facts, but because they had pursued knowledge purely for the sake of intellectual satisfaction, not with the motive of love or in order to help human beings.”
-Aldous Huxley, The Human Situation (Santa Barbara lectures)
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