Founding Father Thomas Jefferson called freedom the "firstborn daughter of science." Freedom stems from science.
Indeed, Jefferson treated science with such reverance that he commissioned portraits of three great scientific thinkers: Francis Bacon, who argued that scientific knowledge arises from inductive reasoning and careful, skeptical observation; Issac Newton, who formulated the laws of motion and gravitation; and John Locke, the prominent empiricist who stated "whatever I write, as soon as I discover it not to be true, my hand shall be the forwardest to throw it into the fire." Their portraits hung prominently in Jefferson's office at the State Department throughout his tenure as Secretary of State.
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