Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.