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
men world bubbles
The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.
time-management management innovators
Time is the greatest innovator.
knowledge differences body
Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.
business home men
Come home to men's business and bosoms.
thinking chance painter
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
attitude thyself
Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
friendship thieves
Friends are thieves of time.
loss hands years
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?
kings knowledge thinking
A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
teacher names monument
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
men statistics use
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
cat england deceit
There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
believe people want
People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
believe thinking media
I think of myself as a kind of pulverizing machine into which everything I look at and feel is fed. I believe that I am different from the mixed-media jackdaws who use photographs etc. more or less literally.