Quote #5716
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of...
Category Archives: Francis Bacon
Quote #5732
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. +2-1
Quote #5701
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical....
Quote #5717
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man...
Quote #5733
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. +10
Quote #5702
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the...
Quote #5718
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin...
Quote #5734
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain...
Quote #5703
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. 0-1
Quote #5719
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a...