“Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time:”

—  Thomas Hobbes, book Leviathan

The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 21
Leviathan (1651)

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