Because of pride, hope, impatience, and a myriad other passions that affect our psyches.

Use experiments, use tests, and observance of nature to formulate your arguments.

We come from nature, are subservient to it, and can only understand our world by observing it.

where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced

We work with the components nature gives us, the workings of those components is done by nature.

Great advancement does not come from perpetually building on old ideas, but by rebuilding the old in a new light of understanding.

Bacon attacks postmodernism and the idea that we cannot know anything through the senses, even though postmodernism didn't exist yet.

...it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives; whereas it ought properly to hold itself indifferently disposed toward both alike.

...having first determined the question according to his will, he then resorts to experience, and bending her into conformity with his placets, leads her about like a captive in a procession.

They believed science and nature were simply shadows, mere reflections of a reality we could never hope to truly know.

So should we spend time on causes and axioms rather than works.

Ideas rooted in reality may be built upon like a solid foundation of truth, while opinions do no grow upward, but spread out thin and varied.

They were too busy doing science to produce useful knowledge than to waste time profiting on their ideas.

For out of the five and twenty centuries over which the memory and learning of men extends, you can hardly pick out six that were fertile in sciences or favorable to their development.

According to Bacon, the goal of science is to endow humanity with new discoveries and powers, but most scientists are focused on personal gain.

Alchemists blame themselves when their experiments bare no fruit, but in the effort, they explore the natural world.

People fear scientific inquiry because they fear negating the scriptures with their discoveries. A very prescient observation by Francis Bacon.

The structure of curriculum is to set a path and provide no deviation from it, but deviation from the path is the stuff of scientific discovery.

Daniel predicts the rise of science and knowing in the Bible.

The experiment of light has the admirable property of never missing or failing, always shining light on the natural world.

The idea that a bit of metal could point the way North was inconceivable until its lucky discovery.

While humans have wasted time on meditations and exercises of wit, there is an endless world of experience awaiting them.

We overlook the common in scientific inquiry, but it is in the common occurrences that the laws of nature are to be found.

Man loses his innocence and dominion over creation, but gains in his estate and power over nature.

Do not grope around in the dark, but light a candle of scientific understanding before venturing into experiences.

...human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Those who think the laws of nature are figured out and those who think we can know nothing are two erroneous extremes, a balance between acknowledging what we know and its boundaries is important.

Scientists work like ants, spiders, and bees.