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• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
  -- Francis Baco...
• Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doub
  when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• A prudent question is one-half wisdom. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• There are a couple of things a man loses when he gets older.
  One's his memory. I've forgotten the other....
• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were no
  but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men....
• It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. -- Francis Baco
• The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Vicissitude of Thing...