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
differences diversity desert
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and Policy, which is the most immersed ... , yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.
friendship forgiveness enemy
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
two interesting people
The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
inspirational greatness thinking
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
motivational change science
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
knowledge order
Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
knowledge tree branches
The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.
philosophy believe miracle
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.
spiritual world christ
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.
running powerful goal
Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
motivational men history
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment
exercise men return
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
anticipation terrible
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.