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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC, son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. Find out more about Francis Bacon quotes on Francis Bacon's biography.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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