Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626; philosopher famed as a proponent of scientific method based on empirical observation, and as a key progenitor of the Enlightenment): “Truth is the daughter not of authority but time” (quoted in Nicholas Wade, “The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?”, Bulletin od the Atomic Scientists”, 5 May 2021: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/ ).