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
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well
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Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
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A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures
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Study After Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X,
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Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
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Decided cases are the anchors of the law, as laws are of the state
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As in nature, things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.
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This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications
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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.
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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.
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What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
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There are some other that account wife and children but as bills of charges
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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
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In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, ""The world says,"" or ""There is a speech abroad.