Francis Bacon Quotes, Science Quotes, Son Quotes

If any human being earnestly desire 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 knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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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.

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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