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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/b/bacon.htm 

Sir Francis Bacon (later Lord Verulam and the Viscount St. Albans) was an English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian, intellectual reformer, philosopher, and champion of modern science. Early in his career he claimed “all knowledge as his province” and afterwards dedicated himself to a wholesale revaluation and re-structuring of traditional learning. To take the place of the established tradition (a miscellany of Scholasticism, humanism, and natural magic), he proposed an entirely new system based on empirical and inductive principles and the active development of new arts and inventions, a system whose ultimate goal would be the production of practical knowledge for “the use and benefit of men” and the relief of the human condition.

At the same time that he was founding and promoting this new project for the advancement of learning, Bacon was also moving up the ladder of state service. His career aspirations had been largely disappointed under Elizabeth I, but with the ascension of James his political fortunes rose. Knighted in 1603, he was then steadily promoted to a series of offices, including Solicitor General (1607), Attorney General (1613), and eventually Lord Chancellor (1618). While serving as Chancellor, he was indicted on charges of bribery and forced to leave public office. He then retired to his estate where he devoted himself full time to his continuing literary, scientific, and philosophic work. He died in 1626, leaving behind a cultural legacy that, for better or worse, includes most of the foundation for the triumph of technology and for the modern world as we currently know it.

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杨小凯：华人经济学界的“骄杨”
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恢复高考后的次年（1979年），杨小凯曾在湖南大学数学系旁听一年数学课，于第二年考入中国社会科学院数量经济所，担任实习研究员。1982年，未上过大学的他到武汉大学教授数理经济学和经济控制论，被聘为助教、讲师。从1984年到1986年连续三年，他每年出版了一部这方面的著作。我相信，即便是没有进过监狱的“老三届”也不一定能取得如此惊人的成就。怪不得一位崇拜杨小凯的网友深深感叹：“即便杨小凯没能有今天的成就，仅凭他这一点，他就有资格进入我们这一代中的优秀者行列。”先哲曾云：“痛苦之时，正是磨练造就阅历人情世故之候。一生本领，多在此处得来。不可困而委顿，如无根小草，不耐风霜。看遍二十四史，古来有大功业者，孰非从艰难困苦中来？”艰难困苦，玉汝于成。是的，杨小凯这棵昔日的小草饱经风霜，已经长成一棵大树，乃至日后成为全球华人经济学界的一棵“骄杨”。
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TOP10—三国历史上最不该被埋没诋毁的人才
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　　在三国的风云舞台上，有不少我们耳熟能详的弄潮儿，他们当然是才华横溢。可是更重要的是他们的面前都出现了不可多得的历史机遇，让他们乘时而上，从而名震当代。可是还有很多人，抱荆山璞玉而不为人知，或者虽然被赏识提拔却未尽其才，或者命运多蹩所托非人而抱恨终生，历史留下了他们光彩的一笔，却没有给他们应得的地位，徒让后来者感慨悲伤。水镜先生有云：孔明虽得其主，未遇其时，惜哉。呜呼，至言也。
NO10　陈登
NO1　庞统