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Source: Francis Bacon
“Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:
“It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.”
Source: Francis Bacon
“Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author
“To know truly is to know by causes.”
Source: Francis Bacon: The New Organon
Source: Francis Bacon
“There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.”
Source: Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953
Source: Selected Philosophical Works
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes
Source: Selected Philosophical Works
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:
“Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes
Source: The Advancement of Learning