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
“For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should… — 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
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
For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. — 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
Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom. — 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
The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books." [ Proposition touching Amendment of Laws ]” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed… — 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
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
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
It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is… — 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
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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