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Only Quotes by Francis Bacon
- Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
- But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
- Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or…
- Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
- The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
- 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…
- 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…
- ...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…
- Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
- Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some…
- To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too…
- Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our…
- The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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