Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
Francis BaconThere is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Francis BaconWhen a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
Francis BaconLastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.
Francis Bacon