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Francis Bacon
said
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.
— His will (1626)
Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
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- Fame59.2
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- Academics rank#218
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Lived 1561–1626, aged 65United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-06-10
He pushed England toward a new way of knowing: doubt everything, test it, write down what happens. Four centuries on, that sceptical method — observe, question, repeat — still shapes how science moves.
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Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Bacon climbed the Tudor-Stuart hierarchy, serving as Attorney General and finally Lord Chancellor under James I. But his lasting work was philosophical: he argued that real knowledge comes only from inductive reasoning and careful observation, not inherited dogma. The specific steps of his Baconian method faded, but the broader insistence on sceptical, methodical inquiry made him a founder of the scientific method and earned him the label "father of empiricism." He also designed a cataloguing system for libraries, dividing books into history, poetry, and…
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Francis Bacon
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Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
— De Augmentis Scientiarum, Book II, "Antitheta" (1623)
Francis Bacon
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Credulity in arts and opinions (…) is likewise of two kinds viz., when men give too much belief to arts themselves, or to certain authors in any art.
— De Augmentis Scientiarum (1623) as quoted by Edward Thorpe, History of Chemistry, Vol. 1, p. 43.
Francis Bacon
said
Lucid intervals and happy pauses.
— History of King Henry VII, III (1622)
Francis Bacon
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Aristotle (…) a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.
— Rerum Novarum (1605)
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