'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic.

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.