关于找一句培根的英文原版名言

如果真是famous quote的话，还是能找到的的，网上的名言是点击喜欢量来排序的。
哪怕知道原文的英文单词都还好找。
history, truth, gold, fallacy
一般名言就难找了，几百条名言中，没有进一步的搜索功能
Francis Bacon quotes on science
Sir Francis Bacon Quotes - 127 Science Quotes
就这一句最接近了。
for the truth is, that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid.
这个句法实在是复杂的很。
大意是：时间像河流，漂浮给我们是轻物，沉淀下来的是重物。
for the truth is, that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which =（时间长河）carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up, and （时间长河）sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid.

as if the multitude, or the wisest for the multitude's sake, were not ready to give passage rather to that which is popular and superficial, than to that which is substantial and profound: for the truth is, that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid.
— Sir Francis Bacon

Another error is a conceit that . . . the best has still prevailed and suppressed the rest: so as, if a man should begin the labor of a new search, he were but like to light upon somewhat formerly rejected, and by rejection brought into oblivion; as if the multitude, or the wisest for the multitude's sake, were not ready to give passage rather to that which is popular and superficial, than to that which is substantial and profound: for the truth is, that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid.

— Sir Francis Bacon

Advancement of Learning, Book 1. Collected in The Works of Francis Bacon (1826), Vol 1, 36.

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