More quotes by Francis Bacon

"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."
"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake..."
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."