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

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

Francis Bacon
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The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

Clive Barker
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the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Francis Bacon
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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

Francis Bacon
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i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.

Bill Hirst
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from supersition; the light of experience, from arrogrance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.1620 - Francis Bacon

Carl Sagan
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
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The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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

Francis Bacon
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