Francis Bacon Quotes, Anticipation Quotes

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

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

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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Man was formed for society.

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The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

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If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

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When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

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