5 Francis Bacon Quotes on Time

Francis Bacon quotes on time

15. Time, which is the author of authors.

17. Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. [The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.] These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.

105. As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

106. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

144. The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.