Such Philosophy As Shall Not Vanish In

The Human Understanding When It Has Once Adopted An Opinion (either As Being The Received Opinion Or As Being Agreeable To Itself) Draws All Things Else To Support And Agree With It.

Men Are Rather Beholden ... Generally To Chance Or Anything Else, Than To Logic, For The Invention Of Arts And Sciences.

For First Of All We Must Prepare A Natural And Experimental History, Sufficient And Good; And This Is The Foundation Of All; For We Are Not To Imagine Or Suppose, But To Discover, What Nature Does Or May Be Made To Do.

It Is A Great Happiness When Men's Professions And Their Inclinations Accord.

A Just Fear Of An Imminent Danger, Though Be No Blow Given, Is A Lawful Cause Of War.