It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, yet to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
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Over a century after the publication of the Copernican system, one of England's most renowned intellectual luminaries was still unconvinced 'Nevertheless, in the system of Copernicus there are found many and great inconveniences for both the loading of the earth with a triple motion is very incommodious, and the separation of the sun from the company of the planets, with which it has so many passions in common, is likewise a difficulty, and the introduction of so much immobility in nature, by representing the sun and stars as immovable, especially being of all bodies the highest and most radiant, and making the moon revolve about the earth in an epicycle, and some other assumptions of his, are the speculations of one who cares not what fictions he introduces into nature, provided his calculations answer.'Francis Bacon
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon
There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well.
Francis Bacon
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon
Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.
Francis Bacon
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
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