"There is in human nature generally, more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties, by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken, are most potent."

"The true and lawful goal of the sciences is none other than this: that human life be endowed with new discoveries and powers."

"The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man. For everyone (besides the errors common to human nature in general) has a cave or den of his own, which refracts and discolors the light of n…"

"Money is a great servant but a bad master."

"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."