Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis BaconAll painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
Francis BaconLet the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind
Francis BaconThere are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
Francis Bacon