Francis Bacon: But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaki — Francis Bacon

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this — that men despair and think things impossible.

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