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For when men... have once surrendered their minds and have given their allegiance to the opinion of some man, they bring no enlargement to the sciences themselves, but merely act as servile functionaries and attendants to glorify certain authors...
Francis Bacon
The Great Instauration, Preface

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I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
Francis Bacon

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To know truly is to know by causes.
Francis Bacon

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon

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Constancy is the foundation of virtue.
Francis Bacon

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For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean and splendid exist alike.
Francis Bacon

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis Bacon

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A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the racer is, who hath once missed his way, the farther he leaveth it behind.
Francis Bacon

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
Francis Bacon

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
Francis Bacon

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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Essays

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No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage ground of truth.
Francis Bacon
Essays

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