To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I will never get tired of looking at works by Pablo Picasso. I will never get tired of looking at work by… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
“Being also a poet, he put Francis Bacon into doggerel: You glorify Nature and meditate on her; Why not domesticate her and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The mind must be passive and in some sense featureless so as not to distort what comes into it. If it interferes… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“In winter you wake up in this city, especially on Sundays, to the chiming of its innumerable bells, as though behind your… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
