"[…] no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth […]" (Sir Francis Bacon, "Essays", 1597)
"God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world." (Francis Bacon, "The Great Instauration", 1620)
"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true." (Sir Francis Bacon, "Novum Organum", 1620)
"Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, dies and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind permit him, and neither knows or is capable of more." (Francis Bacon, "Novum Organum", 1620)
"No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed." (Sir Francis Bacon, "Novum Organum" Book 2, 1620)
"The first and most ancient inquirers into truth were wont to throw their knowledge into aphorisms, or short, scattered, unmethodical sentences." (Sir Francis Bacon, "Novum Organum", 1620)
"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true." (Sir Francis Bacon, "Novum Organum", 1620)
"Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, dies and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind permit him, and neither knows or is capable of more." (Francis Bacon, "Novum Organum", 1620)
"No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed." (Sir Francis Bacon, "Novum Organum" Book 2, 1620)
"The first and most ancient inquirers into truth were wont to throw their knowledge into aphorisms, or short, scattered, unmethodical sentences." (Sir Francis Bacon, "Novum Organum", 1620)
"The human mind is often so awkward and ill-regulated in the career of invention that is at first diffident, and then despises itself. For it appears at first incredible that any such discovery should be made, and when it has been made, it appears incredible that it should so long have escaped men’s research. All which affords good reason for the hope that a vast mass of inventions yet remains, which may be deduced not only from the investigation of new modes of operation, but also from transferring, comparing and applying those already known, by the methods of what we have termed literate experience." (Sir Francis Bacon, "Novum Organum", 1620)
"The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will and passions, which generate their own system accordingly; for man always believes more readily that which he prefers." (Sir Francis Bacon, "Novum Organum", 1620)
"The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible." (Francis Bacon, "New Atlantis", 1627)
"A prudent question is, as it were, one half of wisdom." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"Every act of discovery, advances the art of discovery." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"Great discoveries appear simple once they are made." (Sir 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." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"Make the time to come the disciple of the time past and not its servant." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"Man can only conquer nature by obeying her." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"Mere power and mere knowledge exalt human nature but do not bless it; we must gather from the whole store of things such as make most for the uses of life." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"That all things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"The human understanding is of its own nature prone to abstractions and gives us a substance and reality to thing which are fleeting. But to resolve nature into abstractions is less to our purpose than to dissect her into parts." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do." (Sir Francis Bacon)
"We do not arbitrarily give laws to the intellect or to other things, but as faithful scribes we receive and copy them from the revealed voice of Nature." (Sir Francis Bacon)
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