Francis Bacon Quotes About Logic

Quotes about: Logic

• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Witty, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

• Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Law, Understanding

  Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 4”, p.246

• Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

  Francis Bacon

  Useless, Logic, Rendering

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

• Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Science, Men

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.132, Lulu.com

• The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

  Francis Bacon

  Confused, Lying, Roots

  Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 4”, p.49

• Whatever you can, count.

  Francis Bacon

  Math, Logic, Reasoning

• The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

  Francis Bacon

  Hope, Science, Logic

• The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Science, Errors

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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