Best Francis Bacon Lines
- But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered… Account
- Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must… Cause
- Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented. Any
- No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… Accident
- The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to… All
- The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches… Angle
- Half of science is putting forth the right questions. Forth
- Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Able
- The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind… Admire
- The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one… Angle
- The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction. Genuine
- Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of… Betterment
- Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth. Charity
- It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt. Doth
- Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion. Every Student
- The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then… All
- The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to… Commonly
- There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most… All
- But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment. Actual
- It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried. Contradiction
- ...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same… Any
- Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none. Birth
- If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature… Any
- Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature. Commonly
- In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. Calmly
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