It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.


The Works of Francis Bacon: Novum organum scientiarum (ed. 1815)

Francis Bacon Quotes

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.