Best Francis Bacon Thoughts
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must… Away Never
- It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from… Advancement
- I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde.… Alcoran
- When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. Bequeathed
- Art is man added to Nature. Added
- Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run… Another Great
- It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to… Conclusion
- Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason Authority
- Nothing is terrible except fear itself. Anticipation
- Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life... Affection
- Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been,… Accidents
- The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's… Apollo
- Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless. Aristotle
- Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences. Anything Else
- The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the… Abstracted
- I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. Accept
- One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the… Break
- Whatever you can, count. Count
- Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which… Caution
- There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found… Affords
- Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if… Annihilation
- The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of… Any
- ...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of… Benefit
- There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated. Annihilated
- The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And… All
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