More quotes by Francis Bacon

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."
"If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics."
"For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics."