Who wrote: 'If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties'?
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Correct answer: B. Francis Bacon
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Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, a statement of his inductive method.
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