Francis Bacon:
1st Viscount of St Albans.
(Strand (London), 22 January 1561 – Highgate, 9 April 1626) English philosopher, statesman, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He was also called Lord Verulam. He became Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although he fell into disfavour politically in 1621, he still remained extremely influential through his works, especially as a philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the Scientific Revolution. Bacon has therefore been called the father of empiricism.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
He who asks a lot, will learn a lot and remember a lot.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
It’s not the happy people who are grateful. It is the grateful people who are happy.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
A man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well.
