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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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
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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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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
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In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to by their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
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The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
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I would live to study, and not study to live.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use
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Decided cases are the anchors of the law, as laws are of the state