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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... He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry—"A young man not yet, an elder man not at all."

Of Marriage and Single Life, 1625

Was born on: 22.01.1561
About Author: English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author
Photo Source: National Portrait Gallery, London

Observation

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

Nature

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Young men and men of age

Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business...Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Of Youth and Age, 1625

Observation in life

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Order and equality

The human understanding supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds; and although many things in nature be sui generis and most irregular, will yet invest parallels and conjugates and relatives where no such thing is.

Novum Organum (1620)

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