Hamlet Quote by Thomas Carlyle

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the…

— James M. Barrie

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very…

— Bertrand Russell

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of…

— Thomas Young

“i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis…

— Bill Hirst

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

— Ben Kingsley

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

— Anonymous

Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any difference whether…

— Lewis Mumford

“Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's carrying the…

— Jack McDevitt

Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.

— Hari Kunzru

I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man,…

— Mark Rylance

Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at;…

— Robert Louis Stevenson