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Francis Bacon (1561–1626) was a pivotal figure in the development of the scientific method and an influential philosopher, statesman, and essayist during the Renaissance. Born in London, he became known for his advocacy of empirical research and inductive reasoning, laying the groundwork for modern scientific inquiry. Bacon's seminal works, including *Novum Organum*, challenged traditional Aristotelian thought and emphasized the importance of observation and experimentation. His legacy endures as a cornerstone of the scientific revolution, inspiring generations to pursue knowledge through inquiry and evidence.

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"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Francis Bacon

"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

Francis Bacon

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Francis Bacon

"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."

Francis Bacon

"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."

Francis Bacon

"Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks."

Francis Bacon

"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."

Francis Bacon

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."

Francis Bacon

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

Francis Bacon

"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."

Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

Francis Bacon

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."

Francis Bacon

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."

Francis Bacon

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

Francis Bacon

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

Francis Bacon

"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."

Francis Bacon

"God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires."

Francis Bacon

"Acorns were good until bread was found."

Francis Bacon

"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."

Francis Bacon

"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

Francis Bacon

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."

Francis Bacon

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

Francis Bacon

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

Francis Bacon

"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."

Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is power."

Francis Bacon

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

Francis Bacon

"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."

Francis Bacon

"By indignities men come to dignities."

Francis Bacon

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

Francis Bacon

"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."

Francis Bacon

"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."

Francis Bacon

"Friends are thieves of time."

Francis Bacon

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

Francis Bacon

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

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"It is impossible to love and to be wise."

Francis Bacon

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

Francis Bacon

"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."

Francis Bacon

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."

Francis Bacon

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

Francis Bacon

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."

Francis Bacon

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."

Francis Bacon

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."

Francis Bacon

"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."

Francis Bacon

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."

Francis Bacon