Francis Bacon Quotes

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

The great tragedy of Science --- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

Science is organized knowledge.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

All my knowledge comes from research.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

We are in a war on ignorance, a war on scientific ignorance.

We will acquire knowledge and science wherever they are to be found and we will stuff them into the head of every individual in the country. No limits, no conditions can be attached to knowledge and science.

The inquiry, knowledge, and belief of truth is the sovereign good of human nature.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

[Logic and philosophy] were of no use, in the church or the state, in the cloister or the court, in peace or war, at home or abroad or anywhere but in the schools

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Modern civilization depends on science …