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
comparison lost succeeding
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.
book two environmental
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
love loneliness real-friends
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
variety-is-the-spice-of-life pleasant variety
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
honesty lying men
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
daughter mother religion
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
invention knows
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know
sloth too-much study
To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
sweaters tools use
I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself.
illustration drawing would-be
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.
god-love appearance cleanliness
God loveth the clean.
hills ifs
If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
inquiry sovereign belief
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
wiser spaniards seems
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.