Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Empiricism, scientific method
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"For the mind of man is strangely disposed to give credit to such things as it doth wish were true."
Strange & Unusual"The method of discovery and proof, whether by the senses or by the mind, is one and the same; and it is only by a right method of discovery that we can hope for a right method of proof."
Controversial"The greatest errors are not in the want of power, but in the will."
Shocking"For there is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
Humorous"Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law. Else will it be like the authority, claimed by the Church of Rome, which…"
Controversial