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Sir Francis Bacon
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"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider." -
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Sir Francis Bacon
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Top 5 quotes from Sir Francis Bacon
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him."
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."
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"Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds."
"May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery."
"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
"Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. "
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