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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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.
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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
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Whatever you can, count.
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It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, yet to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
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Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us
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Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time
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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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Man prefers to think what he prefers to be true
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I would live to study, and not study to live.
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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
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Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils.
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The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self