Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“… for it is very probable, that the motion of gravity worketh weakly, both far from the earth, and also within the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Let every student of nature take this as a rule,-- that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three;… — 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
For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to… — 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
