Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.
Francis BaconBut the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
Francis BaconWhen a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis BaconImages also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.
Francis Bacon