Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
Francis BaconAtheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
Francis BaconGreat art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.
Francis Bacon