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 mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

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Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

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Knowledge is power.

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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

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States, as great engines, move slowly.

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

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

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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