Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

- John Wilkins

Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

- John Wilkins

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to ve…

- John Wilkins

Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall con…

- John Wilkins

It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims a…

- John Wilkins

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

- John Wilkins

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

- John Wilkins

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

- John Wilkins

It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

- John Wilkins