Baconian Quotes

#1. Bacon had done it, and Campanella had said, with Baconian pithiness, Tantum possumus quantum scimus - "Our power is proportioned to our knowledge." Perhaps

Will Durant

#2. I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

Charles Darwin

#3. My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.

Philip Warren Anderson

#4. Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.

James C. Collins

#5. However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

Scott Westerfeld

#6. He's more how Satan would look if he needed to seduce you into drowning a baby.

Eve Dangerfield

#7. Investors know that a major factor to investing success is the ability to go where others will not. That's where an investor will be able to achieve excess returns versus the overall market, if executed properly. However, the concept of contrarianism can be taken to extremes at times.

J. Lukas Neely

#8. Dawn may not appear one to all. It depends on beholders how they look at life; whether they see the fading stars or the rising sun.

Ashmita Acharya

#9. Sheeps' Head Stew Oxtail

Juliet Corson

#10. Once we realize that the boundaries between work and play are artificial, we can take matters in hand and begin the difficult task of making life more livable.

Daniel H. Pink

#11. I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh.

Mark Roberts

#12. We wouldn't eat an important person like you. Sometimes we'll take a sailor, but - " He shrugged. " - so would you if it was always fish.

Clive Barker

#13. Shaftoe pulls off his dog tags and wraps the will around them, then wraps the dog tags' chain around the whole thing. He passes it down to the stern of the boat, where the boatman pockets it and cheerfully agrees to do the right thing with it when he gets back to Calamba.

Neal Stephenson

#14. No matter what the work you are doing, be always ready to drop it. And plan it, so as to be able to leave it.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. Anyone desperate enough for suicide ... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

Richard Bach

#16. We are changed by the things we try to change.

Marty Rubin

#17. A lot of people think that it was about Biggie on the East Coast and 2Pac on the West Coast. It wasn't like that. Big ran New York. 2Pac ran America.

Cormega