Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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Francis Bacon – 1561-1626

English philosopher. The first credited with saying, "knowledge is power.” Bacon established the principles of the inductive method.

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.

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

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.

Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.

Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, “stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.”



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