Francis Bacon Quotes About Change

Quotes about: Change

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

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Time, Acceptance

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

• Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Change, Philosophical

• That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Matter, Certain

  'Cogitationes de Natura Rerum' Cogitatio 5 in J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 3 (1857) p. 22 (Latin) and vol. 5 (1858) p. 426 (English translation)

• It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Secret, States

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.347

• Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Science, Omnipotence

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Literary and professional works”, p.726

• If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

  Francis Bacon

  Motivational, Change, Science

• As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Innovation, Growth

  "Essays, Civil and Moral Aeropagitica Religio Medici".

• Great changes are easier than small ones.

  Francis Bacon

  Change, Easier, Great Change

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