What we understand as the instrumentality of science was, for Bacon, nothing but the other side of the scientific coin. Where the poet John Keats wrote “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” Bacon might have said, “Utility is truth, truth utility”—as long as we take “utility” in a very broad sense.
在培根看来，我们心目中的科学的实用性不过是硬币的另外一面而已。诗人约翰·济慈曾经写道“美即是真，真即是美，”而只要我们从广义的角度理解“致用”，培根或许会说“致用即求真，求真即致用”。