Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.