"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."

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

"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…"

"The passion that above all things makes a man fearful, is the fear of death."

"The right of nature ... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing any …"