It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried. (Francis Bacon)

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

Francis Bacon

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