Facts about Francis Bacon 
Summary
Francis Bacon was a famous Philosopher from England, who lived between January 21, 1561 and April 9, 1626.
Biography
He served both as Attorney General (Attorney General) and the Chancellor. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he had great influence on the future, particularly as a proponent of the philosophy and practice of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.
Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His work established and made known the inductive methods of scientific investigation, which is often called the "baconianske method," or simply the scientific method. His claim for a planned and structured procedure for the investigation of all things natural marked a turning point in science's rhetorical and theoretical framework, much of it is still within the concepts of proper methodology today. His own dedication and commitment led presumably to his death, placing Bacon among the historical group of researchers and scientists who were killed by their own experiments and investigations.
Bacon was knighted in 1603 and was made to both Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St Alban in 1621. When he died without heirs died both of his books with him. He is known to have died of pneumonia which he contracted while he examined the effects of freezing as a preservation method for meat.
Bacon's major works are "scientarum Organum" (1620) - "new tools of science." Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous.
Our collection contains 105 quotes who is written / told by Francis, under the main topics: Anger, Gardening, Humor, Men, Nature.
Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: William Shakespeare, George Herbert, Thomas Fuller, Blaise Pascal, Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Thomas Campion, King James I, Thomas Shepard, William Laud, Thomas Wentworth, Claudio Monteverdi, Roger Williams, John Biddle, Samuel de Champlain, John Wilkins, Roger de Rabutin, William Adams, Angelus Silesius, Orlando Gibbons, William Harvey
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
Famous quotes by Francis Bacon (105)
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses"
"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man"
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator"
"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New"
"Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue"
"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well"
"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears"
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws"
"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again"
"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible"
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper"
"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils"
"The place of justice is a hallowed place"
"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall"
"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other"
"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business"
"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use"
"Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out"
"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief"
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion"
"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience"
"Rebellions of the belly are the worst"
"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom"
"It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about"
"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid"
"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"
"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable"
"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter"
"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on"
"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite"
"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time"
"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time"
"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read"
"Acorns were good until bread was found"
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds"
"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open"
"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it"
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion"
"A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner"
"Wise men make more opportunities than they find"
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god"
"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much"
"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul"
"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative"
"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer"
"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do"
"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set"
"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority"
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion"
"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying"
"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self"
"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health"
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool"
"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships"
"The worst men often give the best advice"
"The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate"
"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding"
"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses"
"The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors"
"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express"
"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability"
"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience"
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"
"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God"
"Silence is the virtue of fools"
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom"
"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt"
"Science is but an image of the truth"
"Opportunity makes a thief"
"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing"
"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety"
"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise"
"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice"
"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished"
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience"
"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread"
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other"
"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other"
"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral"
"It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self"
"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior"
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present"
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us"
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties"
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world"
"God's first creature, which was light"
"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave"
"God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires"
"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom"
"Friends are thieves of time"
"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall"
"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason"
"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages"
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse"
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor"
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green"
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures"
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is"
"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men"
"By indignities men come to dignities"
"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her"
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed"
"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics"
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom"
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