Francis Bacon Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

  Francis Bacon

  Stars, Roots, Together

• Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

  Francis Bacon

  Plato, Imagination, Remembrance

  Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.168, Courier Corporation

• We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Mountain, Weight

• All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

  Francis Bacon

  Race, Earth, Crime

  "Temperance sermons, delivered in response to an invitation of the National temperance society and publication house". Book by National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1873.

• Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

  Francis Bacon

  Moving, Science, Men

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1854). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.11

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