• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Francis Bacon Quotes
  • Francis Bacon Quotes   654
  • The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Moving Quotes , Science Quotes
  • I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , People Quotes , Canvas Quotes
  • It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Science Quotes , Discovery Quotes