It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.


The New Organon (1620) in James Spedding, Robert Ellis and Douglas Heath (eds.), The Works of Francis Bacon (1887–1901), Vol. 4

Francis Bacon Quotes

It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very...

It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very...

It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very...

It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very...