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• Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

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• The general root of superstition [is that] men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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• Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are.

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• Wonder is the seed of knowledge.

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• The images of men’s wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.

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• Reading maketh a full man.

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• Knowledge is a rich storehouse, for the glory of the creator and the relief of man’s estate.

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• Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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• Who can I tear to pieces, if not my friends?… If they were not my friends, I could not do such violence to them.

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• I think of myself as a kind of pulverizing machine into which everything I look at and feel is fed. I believe that I am different from the mixed-media jackdaws who use photographs etc.more or less literally.

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• The government of a woman has been a rare thing at all times; felicity in such government a rarer thing still; felicity and long continuance together the rarest thing of all.

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• Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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• The world’s a bubble; and the life of man Less than a span.

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• Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.

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• No man can tickle himself.

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• The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

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• God’s first Creature, which was Light.

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• I bequeath my soul to God…For my name and memory, I leave it to men ’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.

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• In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.

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• It was prettily devised of Aesop, ‘The fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot-wheel and said, what a dust do I raise.’

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Francis Bacon (265)

Birth:	22nd January, 1561
Death:	9th April, 1626
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Philosopher, Scientist, Statesman

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Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution.

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