Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
Boldness is a child of ignorance
People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.