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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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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For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.
image opened till understanding
For the world is not to be narrowed till it will go into the understanding (which has been done hitherto), but the understanding is to be expanded and opened till it can take in the image of the world
almighty god human purest
God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
leave remain running stagnant stream sweet thou wisdom
If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.
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He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own
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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all
doth higher shows
He doth like the ape, that the higher he clymbes the more he shows his ars
comparison lost succeeding
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.
material wrote
When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter
great people position servants
People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
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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.
amongst bats fly suspicions thoughts
Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
apply expect innovation medicine surely
Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils.