Francis Bacon Nature Quotations

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

The pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning, it far surpasseth all other in nature

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. In everything man has accomplished, we have only manipulated nature into doing what it is.

Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.

Certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative know

For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.

Argumentation cannot suffice for the discovery of new work, since the subtlety of Nature is greater many times than the subtlety of argument.

A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Art is man added to Nature.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.