Bacon Quote by Matthew Battles

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only…

— Tom Bissell

“Maybe words, like potions, were also capable of magic.”

— Pete Hamill

“I still believe I can do anything. Somehow along the way I never lost what I see so many people losing, that hope never…

— Tyler Knott Gregson

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

— Tom Bissell

Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known; yet…

— George Henry Lewes

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— George Henry Lewes

After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an…

— Andrew Dickson White

“The thirteenth-century philosopher Roger Bacon claimed that “nobody can obtain to proficiency in the science of mathematics by the method hitherto known unless he…

— Joshua Foer

“Grosseteste influenced Roger Bacon's ideas about mathematics and Nature. Bacon wrote hundreds of pages on the subject and, indeed, no historical figure has ever…

— John D. Barrow

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The only writer of the Middle Ages to describe cryptography instead of just using it was Roger Bacon, the English monk of startlingly modern…

— David Kahn

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a…

— Kenneth R. Miller