Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KCwas an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 January 1561
art modesty wells
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
superstitions avoiding
There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
latin disease remedy
The remedy is worse than the disease.
virtue crushed
Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
death children science
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
men use grows
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
believe despair riches
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
book evolution science-books
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
atheist philosophy men
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
heart men atheism
Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
real confusion darkness
Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
adversity men danger
More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
wealth fortune persons
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
real passion heart
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.