Francis Bacon Branches Quotations

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.