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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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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.
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To invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know
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Heat is a motion of expansion, not uniformly of the whole body together, but in the smaller parts of it; and at the same time checked, repelled, and beaten back, so that the body acquires a motion alternative, perpetually quivering, striving and struggling, and irritated by repercussion, whence springs the fury of fire and heat.
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The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense: for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels; so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.
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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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Diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises; bowling is good for the stone and veins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head and the like.
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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
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There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.
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Born:
January 22, 1561
Died:
April 9, 1626
(aged 65)
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.
Known for:
Novum Organum (1620)
Essays (1597)
New Atlantis (1624)
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
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