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Francis Bacon
(22 Jan 1561 - 9 Apr 1626)
English philosopher,
remembered for his influence promoting a scientific method.
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“Ipsa Scientia Potestas
Est.” (Knowledge is power)
— Francis Bacon
Meditationes Sacræ.
De Hæresibus (1597)
“The subtlety of nature is greater
many times over than the subtlety of
the senses and understanding.”
— Francis Bacon
“By far the best proof is
experience.”
— Francis Bacon
“A prudent question is one half of
wisdom.”
— Francis Bacon
“Books must follow sciences, and
not sciences books.”
— Francis Bacon
“Whence we see spiders, flies, or
ants entombed and preserved forever
in amber, a more than royal tomb.”
— Francis Bacon
Historia Vitæ et Mortis;
Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100
“If a man's wit be wandering, let
him study the mathematics.”
— Francis Bacon
“In nature things move violently to
their place, and calmly in their
place.”
— Francis Bacon
“Nature is often hidden, sometimes
overcome, seldom extinguished.”
— Francis Bacon
“Nature, to be commanded, must be
obeyed.”
— Francis Bacon
Novum Organum
(1620)
“Truth comes out of error more
readily than out of confusion.”
— Francis Bacon
Novum Organum
(1620)
“Man, as the minister and
interpreter of nature, is limited in
act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature;
neither his understanding nor his power extends further.”
— Francis Bacon
Novum Organum, Aphor I.
quoted in Discoveries and Inventions of the 19th Century
Robert Routledge (1890)
quoted in Discoveries and Inventions of the 19th Century
Robert Routledge (1890)
“I have taken all knowledge to be
my province.”
— Francis Bacon
“If
a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he
will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”
— Francis Bacon
“Read
not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not
to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.”
— Francis Bacon
