But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Francis BaconPictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis BaconMen on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
Francis Bacon