Francis Bacon Quotes

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are only consequences.

Political history is not a sequence of incoherent and haphazard events but a chain of causes and effects.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.