More quotes by Francis Bacon

"the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself."
"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."
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics."