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Science is but an image of the truth.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Science, Scientist

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Lying, Inspirational Life
Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.511

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Errors, Confusion

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Francis Bacon
Dog, Truth, Errors

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Failure, Frustration
Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.336

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.

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

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Honesty, Answers
Essays "Of Truth" (1625). The Biblical reference is to John 18:38.

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

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

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Needs, Fiction

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Lying, Adventure
Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

Francis Bacon
Truth, Sovereign, Human Nature
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Truth'

Truth is a naked and open daylight

Francis Bacon
Truth, Naked, Daylight
Francis Bacon (1856). “Bacon's Essays”, p.1

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