Francis Bacon Quotes, Nature Quotes, Science Quotes

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

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I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

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Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

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There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome.

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The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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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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All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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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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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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