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Francis Bacon, 1561-1626. First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method.
  • Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

  • Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

  • Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. . . . Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

  • God's first creature, which was light.

  • If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  • It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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