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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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him . . . when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'
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The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him ... when the hill stood still, he was never a wit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'
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Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and love contentedly
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Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
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The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature
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The poets did well to conjoin Music And Medicine in Apollo: because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man's body and to reduce it to harmony.
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When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.
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Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past
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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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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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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
invention knows
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know