Share this page: Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. (English translation: For also knowledge itself is power.) (often quoted just as: "Knowledge is power") -- Meditationes Sacrae (1597), "Of Heresies". If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. -- The Advancement of Learning (1605) Quod enim mavult homo verum esse, id potius credit. (English translation: For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.) -- Novum Organum (1620) Magna ista scientiarum mater. (English translation: That great mother of sciences.) -- Referring to natural philosophy, in: Novum Organum (1620) The remedy is worse than the disease. -- Essays (1625), "Of Seditions and Troubles" To choose time is to save time. -- Essays (1625), "Of Dispatch" Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. -- Essays (1625), "Of Studies" Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. -- Essays (1625), "Of Studies" Books must follow sciences, not sciences books. -- Rescusitatio (1657), "Proposition Touching Amendment of the Laws" I have taken all knowledge to be my province -- "To My Lord Treasurer Burghley", quoted in: The Letters and Life of Francis Bacon. Vol. 1. J. Spedding, ed. (1861). Share this page:

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