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*. . . [S]ubstance of matter
is better than beauty of words. . .
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-Francis Bacon
Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning,
Divine and Human, 1605
The First Book, IV, 5
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~It is true, that a little
philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth
men's minds about to religion.
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-Francis Bacon
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and
Morall, 1625
"Of Atheism"
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*It is idle to expect
any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting
of new things upon old.
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-Francis Bacon
New Organon
I, Aphorism 25
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The human understanding when it has once
adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it.
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-Francis Bacon
New Organon
Aphorism 42
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The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully
obstructs the understanding.
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-Francis Bacon
New Organon
I, Aphorism 42
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For experience, when it wanders in its own
track, is, mere groping in the dark, and confounds men rather than
instructs them.
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-Francis Bacon
New Organon
Aphorism 100
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~It is true, that a little
philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth
men's minds about to religion.
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-Francis Bacon
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and
Morall, 1625
"Of Atheism"
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~There is no excellent
beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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-Francis Bacon
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and
Morall, 1625
"Of Beauty"
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~Men fear death as children
fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased
with tales, so is the other.
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-Francis Bacon
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and
Morall, 1625
"Of Death"
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~Read not to contradict
and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and
discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others
to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books
are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some
few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
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-Francis Bacon
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and
Morall, 1625
"Of Studies"
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Truth arises more readily from error than
from confusion.
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-Francis Bacon
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Write down the thoughts of the moment.
Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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-Francis Bacon
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Imagination was given to man to compensate
him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
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-Francis Bacon
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A man is but what he knows.
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(This is a test effort. The text is copyrighted, I took it from Biography.com. This
will not be the final version of the text I use.)
Philosopher and statesman, born in London, England, UK, the younger
son of Sir Nicholas Bacon. He studied at Cambridge and Gray's Inn (1576), and was called
to the bar in 1582. Becoming an MP in 1584, he was knighted by James I in 1603. He was
in turn solicitor general (1607), attorney general (1613), privy counsellor (1616), Lord
Keeper (1617), and Lord Chancellor (1618). He became Baron Verulam in 1618, and was made
viscount in 1621. However, complaints were made that he accepted bribes from suitors in
his court, and he was publicly accused before his fellow peers, fined, imprisoned, and
banished from parliament and the court. Although soon released, and later pardoned, he
never returned to public office, and he died in London, deeply in debt. His philosophy is
best studied in The Advancement of Learning (1605) and Novum Organum (1620). His stress
on inductive methods gave a strong impetus to subsequent scientific investigation.
