Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), 1st Viscount St Alban and 1st Baron Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman. He served as Lord Chancellor of England under King James I and is considered the father of empiricism.

For knowledge itself is power.
Sacred Meditations
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
The Advancement of Learning
It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
Novum Organum
Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
De Augmentis Scientiarum
Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.
The Advancement of Learning
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Essex's Device
Time...is the author of authors.
The Advancement of Learning
Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.
Novum Organum
we cannot command nature except by obeying her.
Novum Organum

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.