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Quotes from Francis Bacon

A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.
~ Francis Bacon
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
~ Francis Bacon
Wonder is the seed of knowledge
~ Francis Bacon
By far the best proof is experience.
~ Francis Bacon
The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
~ Francis Bacon
Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.
~ Francis Bacon
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
~ Francis Bacon
Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
~ Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
~ Francis Bacon
Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
~ Francis Bacon
The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
~ Francis Bacon
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.
~ Francis Bacon
There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
~ Francis Bacon
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
~ Francis Bacon
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
~ Francis Bacon
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.
~ Francis Bacon
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b
~ Francis Bacon
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
~ Francis Bacon
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
~ Francis Bacon
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
~ Francis Bacon
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
~ Francis Bacon
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
~ Francis Bacon
Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.
~ Francis Bacon
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
~ Francis Bacon