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Francis Bacon Quotes about Science

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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Motivational, Change, Science

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Science, Wonder, Seeds

By far the best proof is experience.

Science, Experience, Belief

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

Science, Mind, Mystery

Science is but an image of the truth.

Truth, Science, Scientist

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

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Truth, Science, Errors

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

Knowledge, Science, Tree

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.90, Modern Library

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Science, Math, Men

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1821). “A critique of Bacon's "Novum Organum," by Basil Montagu, extracted from the Retrospective Review, 1821. Few MS. notes”, p.285

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

Moving, Science, Dragons

Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

Science, Mind, Handicrafts

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Science, Power, Wit

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1841). “The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England”, p.534

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.

Science, Son, Winning

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Knowledge, Science, Order

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.392

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

Science, Law, Understanding

Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 4”, p.246

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

Science, Men, Medicine

Francis Bacon (1859). “The Works”, p.371

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

Knowledge, Science, Secret

New Atlantis (1627)

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Book, Science, Atheism

'Resuscitatio' (1657) 'Proposition touching Amendment of Laws'

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Science, Half, Right Questions

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

Hope, Science, Logic

Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

Running, Powerful, Science

Francis Bacon (1858). “The Works”, p.79

Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of these joined, then they get the victory; for, Ne Hercules quidem contra duos [Not even Hercules himself is a match for two]. If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for then the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, that is a strong disease; and the physician mistaking the cure, then down goes the patient: if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician; for he is discredited.

Strong, Science, Doctors

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

Science, Discovery, New Work

Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Science, Invention, Knows

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.183

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

Science, Intellectual, Tools

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