> [!quote] > Through light shed on the mental process, Bacon wished to reform reasoning across all the branches of learning.  **Beware, he said, of the idols of the mind, the fallacies into which undisciplined thinkers most easily fall.**  They are the real distorting prisms of human nature. > -- [Edward O. Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson), *Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge*