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From Quotes by Francis Bacon
- Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
- Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
- But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
- 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…
- It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times…
- Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover…
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