Francis Bacon Quotes, Nature Quotes, Science Quotes

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

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Boldness is a child of ignorance

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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.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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We only have our nervous system to paint.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

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It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

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