Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
