Francis Bacon Quotes

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

There is a reason for everything.

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Happy is the one who knows the causes of things.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

I'm here to make sense.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way.

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.