The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.
Francis BaconHouses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis BaconRevenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis BaconAnother argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.
Francis Bacon