Science is but an image of the truth. – Francis Bacon
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. – Francis Bacon

Science is but an image of the truth. – Francis Bacon
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. – Francis Bacon
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon
While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing – good for our political culture. – Jon Meacham