"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

"For the laws of nature, as I have shewed, are but theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves."

"The source of all superstition is ignorance of natural causes."

"For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in Latin CIVITAS) which is but an Artificial Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Natural, for whose prote…"

"For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a wa…"