192 Famous Quotes by Francis Bacon
1/22/1561 - 4/9/1626
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Sir Francis Bacon
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About Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, Kt., KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.
Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularised inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the scientific method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today.
Bacon was knighted in 1603, and created both Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St. Alban in 1621; as he died without heirs, both peerages became extinct upon his death. He famously died by contracting pneumonia while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat, bringing him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
Wisdom
Quotes, by Francis Bacon , Source: (according to Lord Brougham), also attributed to Edmund Burke "Observations on a Late Publication on
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in
philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Philosophy
Quotes, by Francis Bacon , Source: Essays--Atheism
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The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as
pure as before.
Sun
Quotes, by Francis Bacon , Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. II)
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(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.
Post
Quotes, by Francis Bacon , Source: Essays (93), (Arber's ed.)
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature
runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Revenge
Quotes, by Francis Bacon , Source: Of Revenge
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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity
there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by
it.
Charity
Quotes, by Francis Bacon , Source: Essay--On Goodness
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Youth
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Bachelors
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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Discretion
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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Doubt
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fame
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Goodness
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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Nobility
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A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.
Religion
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