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.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.