Mysteries are due to secrecy. – Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. – Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. – Francis Bacon
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. – Francis Bacon
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. – Douglas Adams