Philosophical literatureFor what a man had rather were true he more readily believes.Francis BaconNovum Organum · 1620★ 7.0
Philosophy is written in this grand book-I mean the universe-which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.Galileo Galilei1623★ 6.9
EssayMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Francis Bacon1625★ 6.9
EssayGod Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.Francis Bacon1625★ 6.9
No man is an Island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.John DonneDevotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes · 1624★ 6.9
Scientific literatureAll we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.William Harvey1628★ 6.1
Personal journalBeing thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.William BradfordOf Plymouth Plantation · 1620★ 5.2
PoemThe way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.Francis Quarles1621★ 5.2
EssayHope is a good Break-fast, but it is a bad Supper.Francis BaconApophthegms New and Old · 1625★ 3.7
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