Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

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

When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.