A great leap in the dark

By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have said at the beginning of the second chapter), and remembrance of the same; the other is called science or knowledge of the truth of propositions, and how things are called, and is derived from understanding.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

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

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.