Francis Bacon

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.