About Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of natural philosophy, guided by the scientific method, and his works...
More quotations from Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.