Scientia potentia est man which constitute power; in this list, "sciences" or "the sciences" are given a minor position: In the English version this passage reads as thus: On a later work, "De Corpore" (1655), also written in Latin, Hobbes expanded the same idea: In Jean Hampton, "Hobbes and the social contract tradition" (1988), Hampton indicates that this quote is 'after Bacon' and in a footnote, that 'Hobbes was Bacon's secretary as a young man and had philosophical discussions with him (Aubrey 1898, 331). The closest expression in Bacon's works is, perhaps, the expression ""scientia potestas est"", found in his "" (1597), which
Radix malorum est cupiditas desire, inordinate longing or lust; covetousness", placing the weight firmly on the lecherous side of the reference of this word, which came into our language from Latin, and perhaps through French. That its biblical reference is to the desire of filthy lucre seems established, but to the Latin-literate medieval people the other cultural reference, to the desires of the flesh, must have been an alternative meaning. Radix malorum est cupiditas Radix malorum est cupiditas is a Biblical quotation in Latin that means "greed is the root of evil" (or, in sentence order, the root of evil is greed). This Latin