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
envy cases
He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.
family children wife
... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
moving government states
States, as great engines, move slowly.
men doors hospitality
It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
injury wounds
Wounds cannot be cured without searching.
learning belief judgment
Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed ...
learning suspense prejudice
Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
judging honor succeed
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
flower men garden
The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
religion foundation doe
For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
men charity ifs
Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.
nice science new-work
Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.
men world
The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.
consistency foundation virtue
Consistency is the foundation of virtue.