More quotes by Francis Bacon

"For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics."
"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
"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."