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Which thinker of the following wrote The New Instrument and said “Knowledge is power”.
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Which thinker of the following wrote The New Instrument and said “Knowledge is power”.

A.

Rene Descartes

B.

Blaise Pascal

C.

Francis Bacon

D.

B. Spinoza

Correct option is C

The phrase "knowledge is power" is often attributed to Francis Bacon, from his Meditationes Sacrae (1597). Thomas Jefferson used the phrase in his correspondence on at least four occasions, each time in connection with the establishment of a state university in Virginia.

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