Francis Bacon (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.
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.
Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. Francis Bacon was a patron of libraries and developed a functional system for the cataloging of books by dividing them into three categories—history, poetry, and philosophy.
Bacon was the first recipient of the Queen’s counsel designation.
Read below the Quotes of Francis Bacon.
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand.
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.
God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy.
