Francis Bacon Quotes About Nature
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
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Art is man added to Nature.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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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.
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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
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The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.
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Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.
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There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.
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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
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In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.
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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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Francis Bacon
- Born: January 22, 1561
- Died: April 9, 1626
- Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor
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