The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.