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
cannot discovery greater nature since subtlety suffice
Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument.
clear critics desires earnestly hostile human instead nature push rather retaining using victories win worker
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
certainly extreme house nature roast
Certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
man nature
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. In everything man has accomplished, we have only manipulated nature into doing what it is.
haste lose move nature
Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.
destroy either nature runs therefore water
A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.
delight far knowledge nature pleasure
The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature
contrive deep discover dissect fabulous imitation indulge intend nature plan rather sought worlds
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.
wise nature fool
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
nature men goodness
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.
nature perfect study
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
truth sovereign human-nature
Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
nature garden firsts
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
running weed nature
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.