For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.


Roger Bacon

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
FRANCIS BACON
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...
FRANCIS BACON
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
FRANCIS BACON
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
FRANCIS BACON
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
FRANCIS BACON
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
FRANCIS BACON
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, ...
FRANCIS BACON
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize...
FRANCIS BACON
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
FRANCIS BACON
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
FRANCIS BACON
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACON
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
FRANCIS BACON
In charity there is no excess.
FRANCIS BACON
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactl...
FRANCIS BACON
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient i...
FRANCIS BACON
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug...
FRANCIS BACON
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ...
FRANCIS BACON
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images...
FRANCIS BACON
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ...
FRANCIS BACON
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACON
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
FRANCIS BACON
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
FRANCIS BACON
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe...
FRANCIS BACON
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this u...
FRANCIS BACON
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
FRANCIS BACON
Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
FRANCIS BACON
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with b...
FRANCIS BACON
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself,...
FRANCIS BACON