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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

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

— John Dryden

Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn…

— George Henry Lewes

The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than other men.…

— Henry David Thoreau

As soon as I learned what the smell of bacon was, I learned how to make it.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

“The work of teaching and organising the others fell naturally upon the pigs, who were generally recognised as being the cleverest of the animals.”

— George Orwell

The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of…

— Samuel Johnson

The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being ... Such is the privilege of living…

— Richard Dawkins

Bacon improved things dramatically.

— Kristin Cashore