The ideas of the Cavern are the Ideas of every Man in particular; we every one of us have our own particular Den, which refracts and corrupts the Light of Nature, because of the differences of Impressions as they happen in a Mind prejudiced or prepossessed.
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum Scientarum, Section II, Aphorism V
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum Scientarum, Section II, Aphorism V