All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

A great leap in the dark

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.