Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?