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Francis Bacon Quotes about Nature

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Nature, Changing Environment, Conservation

1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism129.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Nature, Understanding, Subtlety

1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism10.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

Nature, Science, Doubt

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Life, Nature, Travel

'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Running, Weed, Nature

Essays "Of Revenge" (1625)

The eye of 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.

Nature, Eye, Understanding

Francis Bacon (1854). “The Works of Lord Bacon: Philosophical works”, p.96

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Nature, Perfect, Study

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Inspirational, Life, Nature

Francis Bacon “The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature”, Library of Alexandria

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Nature, Men, Goodness

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature'

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

Nature, Knowledge, Science

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.89, Hackett Publishing

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

Nature, Smell, Yield

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.509

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Nature, Science, Overcoming

'Essays' (1625) 'Of Nature in Men'

Art is man added to Nature.

Art, Nature, Men

The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

Nature, Flower, Air

Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.366

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

Art, Nature, Freedom

Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.82, Hackett Publishing

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Wise, Nature, Fool

1625 Essays, no.12,'Of Boldness'.

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.

Nature, Science, Views

Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Translations of the philosophical works”, p.68

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Nature, Revenge, Science

The Advancement of Learning Bk VI, Ch. 3

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Atheist, Nature, Light

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.54

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

Running, Weed, Nature

Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

Nature, Air, Smell

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Nature, Garden, Firsts

Essays "Of Gardens" (1625)

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Nature, Moving, Science

Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.525

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

Nature, Science, History

Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.107, Lulu.com

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