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.
Francis BaconSince custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.
Francis BaconAgain men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.
Francis Bacon