Francis Bacon

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

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.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.