There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.
I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.
Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.
Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.
Wood feeds the fire which burns it.