But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.
Francis BaconThere arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
Francis BaconMen seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.
Francis BaconMedicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.
Francis Bacon