They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. – 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