"It is an age of intellectual slaveries; If they meet any thing extraordinary, they prune it with distinctions, or daub it with false glosses, til it looks like the traditions of Aristotle. His followers are so confident of his principles they seek not to understand what others speak, but to make others speak what they understand."

“Besides, their Aristotle is a poet in text, his principles are but fancies, and they stand more on our concessions, then his bottom.”

“Their philosophy is like a church, that is all discipline, and no doctrine”

“Notwithstanding I acknowledge the schoolmen ingenious: they conceive their principles irregular, and prescribe rules for method, though they want matter.”

“They dwell altogether in the face, their endeavors are meer titillations, & their acquaintance with Nature is not at the heart.”

“The peripateticks when they define the soul or some inferior principle describe it only by outward circumstances, which every child can do, but they state nothing essentially.”

“Friar Bacon walked in Oxford between two steeples, but he that would have discovered his thoughts, by his steps, had been more his fool than his fellow.”