Francis Bacon said this quote

“ Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. ”

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

~ Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

~ Francis Bacon

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

~ Francis Bacon

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

~ Francis Bacon