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Francis Bacon, né le 22 janvier 1561 à Londres et mort à Highgate près de la même ville en 1626, baron de Verulam, vicomte de St Albans, Chancelier d’Angleterre, est un scientifique, un philosophe et un homme d'État anglais. Francis Bacon développe dans son œuvre le De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum une théorie empiriste de la connaissance, et, en 1620, il précise les règles de la méthode expérimentale dans le Novum organum, ce qui fait de lui l’un des pionniers de la pensée scientifique moderne. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. janvier 1561 – 9. avril 1626  •  Autres noms Sir Francis Bacon
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“Certains livres sont à savourer, d'autres à avaler et quelques-uns à mâcher et à digérer.”

Francis Bacon

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“Un homme sage.”

Francis Bacon

“Milord, il était dans ma destinée de finir comme Pline l'Ancien, qui mourut pour s’être trop approché du”

Francis Bacon

“[…]Le savoir dérivé d’Aristote, s'il est soustrait au libre examen, ne montera pas plus haut que le savoir qu' Aristote avait.”

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“La science de l'homme est la mesure de sa puissance, parce qu'ignorer la cause, c'est ne pouvoir produire l'effet. On ne triomphe de la nature qu’en lui obéissant; et ce qui, dans la spéculation, porte le nom de cause, devient une règle dans la pratique.”

Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Novum Organum (1620), traduction de 1857

Francis Bacon Citations

“On ne demande point au”

Francis Bacon

(1620), traduction de 1857

“Le médecin (…), pour guérir la maladie, tue le malade.”

Francis Bacon

Cure the disease, and kill the patient.
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“Les empiriques, semblables aux”

Francis Bacon

(1620), traduction de 1857

“Les empiriques, semblables aux fourmis, ne savent qu’amasser et user; les rationalistes, semblables aux araignées, font des toiles qu’ils tirent d’eux même; le procédé de l’abeille tient le milieu entre ces deux : elle recueille ses matériaux sur les fleurs des jardins et des champs; mais elle les transforme et les distille par une vertu qui lui est propre : c’est l’image du véritable travail de la philosophie, qui ne se fie pas aux seules forces de l’esprit humain et n’y prend même pas son principal appui. (…) C’est pourquoi il y a tout à espérer d’une alliance intime et sacrée de ces deux facultés expérimentale et rationnelle; alliance qui ne s’est pas encore rencontrée.”

Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Novum Organum (1620), traduction de 1857

“On ne demande point au syllogisme les principes de la science; on lui demande vainement les lois intermédiaires, parce qu’ils est incapable de saisir la nature dans sa subtilité; il lie l’esprit, mais non les choses.”

Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Novum Organum (1620), traduction de 1857

Francis Bacon: Citations en anglais

“Silence is the virtue of a fool.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book VI, xxxi
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.”

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“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Seditions and Troubles
Essays (1625)
Source: The Essays

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Innovations
Essays (1625)

“Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Source: The Essays

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

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Francis Bacon

Of Studies
Essays (1625)
Source: The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon

“There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It!”

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“It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Truth
Essays (1625)

“We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book II, xxi, 9
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Followers and Friends
Essays (1625)

“Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."”

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No. 206
Apophthegms (1624)

“It is not the pleasure of curiosity, nor the quiet of resolution, nor the raising of the spirit, nor victory of wit, nor faculty of speech … that are the true ends of knowledge … but it is a restitution and reinvesting, in great part, of man to the sovereignty and power, for whensoever he shall be able to call the creatures by their true names, he shall again command them.”

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Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (ca. 1603) Works, Vol. 1, p. 83; The Works of Francis Bacon (1819) p. 133, https://books.google.com/books?id=xgE9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA133 Vol. 2

“In the same manner as we are cautioned by religion to show our faith by our works we may very properly apply the principle to philosophy, and judge of it by its works; accounting that to be futile which is unproductive, and still more so, if instead of grapes and olives it yield but the thistle and thorns of dispute and contention.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 73
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

“Men's thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Custom and Education
Essays (1625)

“Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 52
Novum Organum (1620), Book II

“There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Boldness
Essays (1625)

“Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Judicature
Essays (1625)

“Who then to frail mortality shall trust
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.”

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The World (1629)

“The greatness of an estate, in bulk and territory, doth fall under measure; and the greatness of finances and revenue, doth fall under computation. The population may appear by musters; and the number and greatness of cities and towns by cards and maps. But yet there is not any thing amongst civil affairs more subject to error, than the right valuation and true judgment concerning the power and forces of an estate.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
Essays (1625)

“It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Cunning
Essays (1625)

“Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Nature in Men
Essays (1625)

“If thou shalt aspire after the glorious acts of men, thy working shall be accompanied with compunction and strife, and thy remembrance followed with distaste and upbraidings; and justly doth it come to pass towards thee, O man, that since thou, which art God's work, doest him no reason in yielding him well-pleasing service, even thine own works also should reward thee with the like fruit of bitterness.”

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Of The Works Of God and Man
Meditationes sacræ (1597)

“In charity there is no excess.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
Essays (1625)

“As we divided natural philosophy in general into the inquiry of causes, and productions of effects: so that part which concerneth the inquiry of causes we do subdivide according to the received and sound division of causes. The one part, which is physic, inquireth and handleth the material and efficient causes; and the other, which is metaphysic, handleth the formal and final causes.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book VII, 3
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Truth
Essays (1625)

“Above all, every relation must be considered as suspicious, which depends in any degree upon religion, as the prodigies of Livy: And no less so, everything that is to be found in the writers of natural magic or alchemy, or such authors, who seem, all of them, to have an unconquerable appetite for falsehood and fable.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 29
Novum Organum (1620), Book II

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