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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.”

Francis Bacon

“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

“For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book I, i, 3
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."”

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No. 193
Apophthegms (1624)

“But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book II, xx, 8
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“The planting of hemp and flax would be an unknown advantage to the kingdom, many places therein being as apt for it, as any foreing parts.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Trading
Essays (1625)

“As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Innovations
Essays (1625)

“Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Boldness
Essays (1625)

“The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it. For none deny, there is a God, but those, for whom it maketh that there were no God. It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man, than by this; that atheists will ever be talking of that their opinion, as if they fainted in it, within themselves, and would be glad to be strengthened, by the consent of others.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Atheism
Essays (1625)

“Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Atheism
Essays (1625)

“Only charity admitteth no excess. For so we see, aspiring to be like God in power, the angels transgressed and fell; Ascendam, et ero similis altissimo: by aspiring to be like God in knowledge, man transgressed and fell; Eritis sicut Dii, scientes bonum et malum: but by aspiring to a similitude of God in goodness or love, neither man nor angel ever transgressed, or shall transgress.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book II, XXII
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad."”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Cunning
Essays (1625)

“Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.”

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An Essay on Death published in The Remaines of the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam (1648) but may not have been written by Bacon

“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Cunning
Essays (1625)

“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
Essays (1625)

“We have also sound houses, where we practice and demonstrate all sounds and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter sounds and lesser slides of sounds. Divers instruments of music likewise to you unknown, some sweeter than any you have; together with bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. We represent small sounds as great and deep; likewise divers trembling and warblings of sounds, which in their original are entire. We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which set to the ear to do further the hearing greatly. We have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and as if it were tossing it; and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice, differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have also means to convey sounds in tubes and pipes, in strange lines and distances…”

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New Atlantis http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm (1627)

“But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this — that men despair and think things impossible.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 92
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

“Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Vain-Glory
Essays (1625)

“…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives…”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 46
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

“As for the passions and studies of the mind: avoid envy; anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated. Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Regimen of Health
Essays (1625)

“The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Vicissitude of Things
Essays (1625)

“Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.”

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No. 54
Apophthegms (1624)

“Aristotle… a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.”

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Rerum Novarum (1605)

“Time, which is the author of authors.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book I, iv, 12
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“For a man to love again where he is loved, it is the charity of publicans contracted by mutual profit and good offices; but to love a man's enemies is one of the cunningest points of the law of Christ, and an imitation of the divine nature.”

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Of The Exaltation of Charity
Meditationes sacræ (1597)

“[N]ot only must we seek the measure of motions and actions by themselves, but much more in comparison; for this is of excellent use and very general application. Now we find that the flash of a gun is seen sooner than its report is heard… and this is owing it seems to the motion of light being more rapid than that of sound. We find to that visible images are received by the sight faster than they are dismissed; thus the strings of the violin, when struck by the finger, are to appearance doubled and tripled, because the new image is received before the old one is gone; which is also why the reason why rings being spun round look like globes, and a lighted torch, carried hastily at night, seems to have a tail. And it was upon this inequality of motions in point of velocity that Galileo built his theory of flux and reflux of the sea; supposing that the earth revolved faster than the water could follow; and that the water was therefore first gathered in a heap and then fell down, as we see in a basin of water moved quickly. But this he devised upon an assumption which cannot be allowed, viz. that the earth moves; and also without being well informed as to the sexhorary motion of the tide.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 46
Novum Organum (1620), Book II

“Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.”

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No. 247
Apophthegms (1624)

“If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Fortune
Essays (1625)

“The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this — that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 9
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

“[I]n the system of Copernicus there are found many and great inconveniences; for both the loading of the earth with triple motion is very incommodious, and the separation of the sun from the company of the planets, with which it has so many passions in common, is likewise a difficulty, and the introduction of so much immobility into nature, by representing the sun and stars as immovable, especially being of all bodies the highest and most radiant, and making the moon revolve about the earth in an epicycle, and some other assumptions of his, are the speculations of one who cares not what fictions he introduces into nature, provided his calculations answer. But if it be granted that the earth moves, it would seem more natural to suppose that there is no system at all, but scattered globes… than to constitute a system of which the sun is the centre. And this the consent of ages and of antiquity has rather embraced and approved. For the opinion concerning the motion of the earth is not new, but revived from the ancients… whereas the opinion that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable is altogether new… and was first introduced by Copernicus. …But if the earth moves, the stars may either be stationary, as Copernicus thought or, as it is far more probable, and has been suggested by Gilbert, they may revolve each round its own centre in its own place, without any motion of its centre, as the earth itself does… But either way, there is no reason why there should not be stars above stars til they go beyond our sight.”

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Francis Bacon

Descriptio Globi Intellectualis (1653, written ca. 1612) Ch. 6, as quoted in "Description of the Intellectual Globe," The Works of Francis Bacon (1889) pp. 517-518, https://books.google.com/books?id=lsILAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA517 Vol. 4, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath.

“Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Love
Essays (1625)

“States as great engines move slowly.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book II
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

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