The remedy is worse than the disease.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.