They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in natureFrancis Bacon
The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science) for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped.
Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
This delivering of knowledge in distinct and disjointed aphorisms doth leave the wit of man more free to turn and toss, and to make use of that which is so delivered to more several purposes and applications
Francis Bacon
A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon
We take cunning for a sinister or crooked wisdom.
Francis Bacon
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