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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Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us
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If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative know
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God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.
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Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
What then remains, but that we still should cry,/ Not to be born, or being born, to die?
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What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die?
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The poets did well to conjoin Music And Medicine in Apollo: because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man's body and to reduce it to harmony.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
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The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature
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When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.
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Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past