Francis Bacon Quotes About Curiosity

Francis Bacon, 'Of Studies,' essay L in the 1625 Essays; independently checked against the validated 1884 Works of Francis Bacon, Volume I scan at printed page 55 / scan leaf 183. The opening sentence names delight, ornament and ability as uses of study; it remains early-modern essay argument rather than educational-outcome research.

Of Studies; Bacon distinguishes the intellectual uses of reading, conversation, and writing within the essay’s compact account of study and judgment.

Essay “Of Studies”; Bacon distinguishes different depths and purposes of reading.

Of Studies; the sentence is shortened by omitting Bacon’s middle clause about talk and discourse.

Of Studies, in Bacon’s instructions for how different kinds of books should be read.

The Advancement of Learning, First Book, Project Gutenberg #5500, transcribed from the 1893 Cassell & Company edition. Bacon contrasts impatience of doubt with mature suspension of judgment and then sets out two ways of contemplation before saying that beginning with certainties ends in doubts while beginning with doubts can end in certainties. It remains early-modern epistemological argument rather than a modern experimental rule for scientific method.