Science Quotes by Francis Bacon

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

— Francis Bacon

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

— Francis Bacon

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

— Francis Bacon

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

— Francis Bacon

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

— Francis Bacon

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

— Francis Bacon

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

— Francis Bacon

By far the best proof is experience.

— Francis Bacon

“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books." [ Proposition touching Amendment of Laws ]”

— Francis Bacon

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

— Francis Bacon

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

— Francis Bacon

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth…

— Francis Bacon

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

— Francis Bacon

“ Aristotle ... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious...”

— Francis Bacon

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

— Francis Bacon

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice…

— Francis Bacon

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to…

— Francis Bacon

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received…

— Francis Bacon

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto…

— Francis Bacon

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

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to…

— Francis Bacon

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of…

— Francis Bacon

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the…

— Francis Bacon

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than…

— Francis Bacon

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we…

— Francis Bacon

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win…

— Francis Bacon

Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to…

— Francis Bacon

Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work…

— Francis Bacon

No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories…

— Francis Bacon

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with…

— Francis Bacon

...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence…

— Francis Bacon

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,…

— Francis Bacon

Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if…

— Francis Bacon

“Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of…

— Francis Bacon

But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for…

— Francis Bacon

Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery…

— Francis Bacon

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

— Francis Bacon

Science is but an image of the truth.

— Francis Bacon

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

— Francis Bacon