Francis Bacon Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• 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'

• For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, History

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.107, Lulu.com

• It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

  Francis Bacon

  Motivational, Men, History

  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.15

• Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, History, Mind

  Francis Bacon (1753). “The Works...”, p.42

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