We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. – Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. – Francis Bacon
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. – Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. – Francis Bacon
The victory of Christianity over paganism was the greatest psychic revolution in the history of our culture. By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects. – Lynn I. White, Jr., Science, 10 March 1967
Its usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. Its such a cliche to say that artists write when theyre down, but its true for me. Its a relief to get out whats eating away at my heart or my soul or my head. – Ellie Goulding