Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban KC, (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), was an English philosopher, statesman, and author. He has been described as one of the greatest thinkers ever whose ideas have changed the way people think. He was born in London, the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, and the nephew of Queen Elizabeth’s advisor, William Cecil. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His first job was as a lawyer. He later became a Member of Parliament and in 1586 he took a leading part in having Mary Queen of Scots executed. He became a friend of Robert Deveraux, the Earl of Essex, in 1591, and received many valuable gifts from him. After Essex led a rebellion against the Queen, Bacon was one of the people who led the investigation which led to Essex’s execution in 1601. Bacon was often in trouble for spending too much, and in 1601 he was arrested for debt. When King James became king in 1603, Bacon’s position improved. He continued to be given better paying positions including Attorney General, Lord Keeper, and Lord Chancellor. He was made Baron Verulam in 1618, and Viscount St Albans in 1621. Because he did not have children both titles ended when he died. He used his positions to make more money for himself, and in 1621 the Parliament found that he was corrupt. He was fined £40,000 and removed from all his jobs. King James overturned the fine, but he was kept as a prisoner in the Tower of London for a while He became best known as a leading thinker in new ways of looking at the world. His writings started and made famous a way of thinking about science. This way of thinking is now called the Baconian method. It is based on looking at the world by making experiments. After watching the results, the scientist comes up with an idea to explain what has happened. This idea or hypothesis is then further tested by more experiments. This way of thinking about science is called inductive methodology. In Bacon’s time these methods were linked with magic including hermeticism and alchemy. Alchemy was the study of fire, earth, water and air. Alchemists tried to make gold from lead. We being you the compilation of the best Sir Francis Bacon Quotes, hope you like it.
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Riches are for spending. -Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. -Francis Bacon
A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. -Francis Bacon
Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faith, he growth out of use. -Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. -Francis Bacon
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. -Francis Bacon
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. -Francis Bacon
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. -Francis Bacon
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one … the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray. -Francis Bacon
Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. -Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator. -Francis Bacon
Money is like muck – not good unless it be spread. -Francis Bacon
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue. -Francis Bacon
Time is the greatest innovator. -Francis Bacon
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. -Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. -Francis Bacon
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extend. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. -Francis Bacon
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -Francis Bacon
I would live to study, not study to live. -Francis Bacon
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.-Francis Bacon
The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue. -Francis Bacon
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. -Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. -Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power. -Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea. -Francis Bacon
Generally music feted that disposition of the spirits which it fainted. -Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -Francis Bacon
If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. -Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. -Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. -Francis Bacon
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. -Francis Bacon
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man. -Francis Bacon
Time is the author of authors. -Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -Francis Bacon
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. -Francis Bacon
Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. -Francis Bacon
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. -Francis Bacon
It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on. -Francis Bacon
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. -Francis Bacon
All rising to great places is by a winding stair. -Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. -Francis Bacon
Nothing is terrible except fear itself. -Francis Bacon
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. -Sir Francis Bacon
This world’s a bubble. -Sir Francis Bacon
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. -Sir Francis Bacon
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. -Sir Francis Bacon
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on. -Sir Francis Bacon
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. -Sir Francis Bacon
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. -Sir Francis Bacon
The best work, and of greatest merit for the public, has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men. -Sir Francis Bacon
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. -Sir Francis Bacon
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. -Sir Francis Bacon
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. -Sir Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
I take all knowledge to be my province. -Sir Francis Bacon
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior. -Sir Francis Bacon
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. -Sir Francis Bacon
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us. -Sir Francis Bacon
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. -Sir Francis Bacon
Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men’s nurses. -Sir Francis Bacon
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Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling. -Sir Francis Bacon
For knowledge, too, is itself a power. -Sir Francis Bacon
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. -Sir Francis Bacon
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