Francis Bacon Quotes, Science Quotes, Sight Quotes

But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

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There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

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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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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

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

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Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

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For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

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One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

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All will come out in the washing.

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He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

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Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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