He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.