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
men use grows
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
believe despair riches
Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
book evolution science-books
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
atheist philosophy men
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
heart men atheism
Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.
real confusion darkness
Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.
adversity men danger
More dangers have deceived men than forced them.
wealth fortune persons
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
real passion heart
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
real faithful mind
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
true-friend real solitude
But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
art painting painter
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
science air discovery
Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.
taken science white
There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.