The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

Friends are thieves of time.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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.