Novum Organum

Being convinced that the human intellect makes its own difficulties, not using the true helps which are at man’s disposal soberly and…

Your Majesty may perhaps accuse me of larceny, having stolen from your affairs so much time as was required for this work. I know not what…

It seems to me that men do not rightly understand either their store or their strength, but overrate the one and underrate the other. Hence…

1. The Divisions of the Sciences.

THOSE who have taken upon them to lay down the law of nature as a thing already searched out and understood, whether they have spoken in…

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought…

On a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures, is the work and aim of Human Power. Of a given nature to discover…

My object in publishing my Instauration by parts is that some portion of it may be put out of peril. A similar reason induces me to subjoin…

1. History of the Heavenly Bodies; or Astronomical History.