Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Boldness is a child of ignorance

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

God's first creature, which was light.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.