We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

—Francis Bacon

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About Francis Bacon

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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...

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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

—Francis Bacon

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

—Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

—Francis Bacon

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

—Francis Bacon

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

—Francis Bacon

More quotations tagged with “nature”

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

—William Wordsworth

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

—Edouard Manet

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

—Pierre Schaeffer

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