Francis Bacon Quotes About Change
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Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
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Great changes are easier than small ones.
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Francis Bacon
- Born: January 22, 1561
- Died: April 9, 1626
- Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor
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