Creative Quotations from . . .
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626) born on
Jan 22
English "philosopher, statesman, essayist". "He was an early advocate of inductive learning from intensive observation; wrote "Novum Organum," 1620."
 
   
F
What then remains, but that we still should cry,
Not to be born, or being born, to die?"

R
All good moral philosophy is but the handmaid to religion.
A
"God's first creature, which was light."
N
"When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter."
K
For knowledge itself is power.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: The World
R: "The Advancement of Learning, II. xxii. 14"
A: "New Atlantis, sct. 14, 1627."
N: "See also" HAZLITT. Essays," 'Of Cunning'"
K: "Religious Meditations, `Of Heresies'"



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