Bacon Number

Famous quotes containing the words bacon and/or number:

    For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    One may confidently assert that when thirty thousand men fight a pitched battle against an equal number of troops, there are about twenty thousand on each side with the pox.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)