More quotes by Francis Bacon

"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
"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..."
"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."
"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."