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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”

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“[…]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.”

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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

“Touching the secrets of the heart and the successions of time, doth make a just and sound difference between the manner of the exposition of the Scriptures and all other books. For it is an excellent observation which hath been made upon the answers of our Saviour Christ to many of the questions which were propounded to Him, how that they are impertinent to the state of the question demanded: the reason whereof is, because not being like man, which knows man’s thoughts by his words, but knowing man’s thoughts immediately, He never answered their words, but their thoughts. Much in the like manner it is with the Scriptures, which being written to the thoughts of men, and to the succession of all ages, with a foresight of all heresies, contradictions, differing estates of the Church, yea, and particularly of the elect, are not to be interpreted only according to the latitude of the proper sense of the place, and respectively towards that present occasion whereupon the words were uttered, or in precise congruity or contexture with the words before or after, or in contemplation of the principal scope of the place; but have in themselves, not only totally or collectively, but distributively in clauses and words, infinite springs and streams of doctrine to water the Church in every part. And therefore as the literal sense is, as it were, the main stream or river, so the moral sense chiefly, and sometimes the allegorical or typical, are they whereof the Church hath most use; not that I wish men to be bold in allegories, or indulgent or light in allusions: but that I do much condemn that interpretation of the Scripture which is only after the manner as men use to interpret a profane book.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

XXV. (17)
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“I bequeath my soul to God… My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.”

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His will (1626)

“Lastly, there are Idols which have immigrated into men's minds from the various dogmas of philosophies, and also from wrong laws of demonstration. These I call Idols of the Theater, because in my judgment all the received systems are but so many stage plays, representing worlds of their own creation after an unreal and scenic fashion.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 44
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

“You shall have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects. And, which is most of all, you shall have of them, that will suffer for atheism, and not recant; whereas if they did truly think, that there were no such thing as God, why should they trouble themselves?”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Atheism
Essays (1625)

“God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Gardens
Essays (1625)

“Boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Boldness
Essays (1625)

“The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 47
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

“"You err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God" This canon is the mother of all canons against heresy; the causes of error are two; the ignorance of the will of God, and the ignorance or not sufficient consideration of his power.”

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Of Heresies
Meditationes sacræ (1597)

“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Marriage and Single Life
Essays (1625)

“Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business, a man somewhat absurd, than over-formal.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Seeming Wise
Essays (1625)

“But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 70
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

“Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book II
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“Come home to men's business and bosoms.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Dedication to the Essays (edition 1625)
Essays (1625)

“He that defers his charity 'till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man's, than of his own.”

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Ornamenta Rationalia http://books.google.com/books?id=VHNUAAAAYAAJ&q="He+that+defers+his+charity+'till+he+is+dead+is+if+a+man+weighs+it"+"rather+liberal+of+another+man's+than+of+his+own"&pg=PA298#v=onepage #55

“Do not wonder, if the common people speak more truly than those of high rank; for they speak with more safety.”
Ne mireris, si vulgus verius loquatur quam honoratiores; quia etiam tutius loquitur.

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Exempla Antithetorum, IX. Laus, Existimatio (Pro.) http://books.google.com/books?id=C9cQAAAAYAAJ&q="Ne+mireris+si+vulgus+verius+loquatur+quam+honoratiores+quia+etiam+tutius+loquitur"&pg=PA692#v=onepage

“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.”

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Proposition touching Amendment of Laws
Resuscitatio (1657)

“Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.”
Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret.

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De Augmentis Scientiarum (1623)

“And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Gardens
Essays (1625)

“Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.”

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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

“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Marriage and Single Life
Essays (1625)

“For I find that even those that have sought knowledge for itself and not for benefit, or ostentation, or any practical enablement in the course of their life, have nevertheless propounded to themselves a wrong mark, namely, satisfaction, which men call truth, and not operation. For as in the courts and services of princes and states, it is a much easier matter to give satisfaction than to do the business; so in the inquiring of causes and reasons it is much easier to find out such causes as will satisfy the mind of man, and quiet objections, than such causes as will direct him and give him light to new experiences and inventions.”

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Source: Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (ca. 1603) Works, Vol. 1; The Works of Francis Bacon (1857) p. 232, https://books.google.com/books?id=HloJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA232 Vol. 3.

“Virtue is like precious odors — most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Adversity
Essays (1625)

“This misplacing hath caused a deficience, or at least a great improficience in the sciences themselves. For the handling of final causes, mixed with the rest in physical inquiries, hath intercepted the severe and diligent inquiry of all real and physical causes, and given men the occasion to stay upon these satisfactory and specious causes, to the great arrest and prejudice of further discovery. For this I find done not only by Plato, who ever anchoreth upon that shore, but by Aristotle, Galen, and others which do usually likewise fall upon these flats of discoursing causes.”

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Francis Bacon livre The Advancement of Learning

Book VII, 7
The Advancement of Learning (1605)

“It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, “It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.””

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Adversity
Essays (1625)

“For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Love
Essays (1625)

“Beware of sudden change, in any great point of diet, and, if necessity inforce it, fit the rest to it. For it is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things, than one.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Regimen of Health
Essays (1625)

“It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Aphorism 6
Novum Organum (1620), Book I

“We are wont to call that human reasoning which we apply to Nature the anticipation of Nature (as being rash and premature) and that which is properly deduced from things the interpretation of Nature.”

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Francis Bacon livre Novum Organum

Novum Organum (1620)

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Travel
Essays (1625)

“Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.”

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Francis Bacon livre Essays

Of Revenge
Essays (1625)

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