...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.