I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all;… — 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
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses: the one, that it saveth philosophy from errors and falsehoods; when that which is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his… — 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
