occasionally i would bump into francis bacon, who would take me for dinner, which was very nice of hims, because he'd been there himself. you make it sound almost glamorous, being a drug addict. well, i'm really sorry. what can i tell you? no, i'm just interested. i was in agony, and i healed myself as best i could. one of the ways was with drugs, because they are painkillers. heroin is a painkiller. when i didn't need a painkiller any more, i stopped. i haven't touched it since 1985. the other thing that i really needed was anonymity, but you were also a mother, you had a son to bring up... i would go back to my mum and have a bath and a good meal i was much too sick at that moment, you know? i breast—fed nicholas for six months. i didn't smoke cigarettes, i didn't do drugs, i didn't we had a very, very good first seven years together. then he was taken away from me. but, yeah, after i left mick, i was much too broken and sick and unhappy. i couldn't do anything. when i would go home, after my famous bath or sit in the chair, my mother would be upstairs, hank williams. and i would pla

and this is francis bacon. so francis bacon is considered the founder, the scientific method or the first to write about it, in which he's talking about not that we're going to deduct news, deduct truth from some, in fact, we're going to induct. right. in other words, if god made the earth, the earth is really important. then everything must go around it, right? the sun must around the earth. that sort of deductive. and he said, no, we have to have inductive reasoning. and he became a very, very important figure in. the idea of scientific thinking, objective, scientific thinking based on facts. but here's the thing. there's two things about bacon that are very interesting. he was one of the most brilliant philosophers in history. he was lionized in britain and abroad because of his writing. he was the first essayist, by the way, to first person to write. that's considered the first british essayist. but he also another job he worked for the court and he was a big climber. he really wanted to be powerful and whe