Francis Bacon Quotes, Mean Quotes, Science Quotes

It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.

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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

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Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

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Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

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For knowledge, too, is itself power.

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

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Time is the greatest innovator.

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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

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Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

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Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

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Mysteries are due to secrecy.

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Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

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