Famous quotes containing the words bacon and/or number:
“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“I can’t quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world’s problems.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)