"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
"For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do."
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Source: Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
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