Assertion: scientist's goal | /r/HasProperty | the endowment of human life
Facets:
value: with riches
type: OTHER
value: with new inventions
type: OTHER
value: in bacon's words
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In Bacon's words, "the real and legitimate goal of sciences is the endowment of human life with new inventions and riches", and he discouraged scientists from pursuing intangible philosophical or spiritual ideas, which he believed contributed little to human happiness beyond "the fume of subtle, sublime, or pleasing speculation".