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Quote by Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do. – Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon
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Man maketh a death which Nature never made. – Edward Young

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The human race will be the cancer of the planet. – Julian Huxley, attributed

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We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. – Joseph Chilton Pearce

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