If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books." [ Proposition touching Amendment of Laws ]” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“ Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — 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
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
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
It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received… — 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
Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the… — 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
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to… — 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 unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we… — 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
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience,… — 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… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the… — 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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work… — 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
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