Set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents as to follow them.
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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.Francis Bacon
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.
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How can I take an interest in my work when I don't like it.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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