In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992, the year that Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” ...

But what did it originally mean? A version of the saying was first spotted in the writing of philosopher Francis Bacon in 1598, with a distinctly religious meaning: “Knowledge itself is a power ...

They include: Advertisement -- Russian Czar Ivan III, known as Ivan the Great, in 1440 -- Writer/explorer Walter Raleigh in 1552 -- English philosopher/statesman Francis Bacon in 1561 -- Poet Lord ...