Francis Bacon Quotes
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this - that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
Francis Bacon
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
Ice T
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld
'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
Taylor Hicks
I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
S. J. Perelman
The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Dan Shechtman
I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
Becky G
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
Gavin Hood
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do think that Americans do not understand that things are done differently in other parts of the world and that the other ways people do things are equally accurate ways to do things. Someone else just came up with something different.
Andrew Sean Greer
Custom determines what is agreeable.
Blaise Pascal
Ethiopia doesn't matter to the West," I say, stating the obvious. "We offer them nothing they can exploit.
Camilla Gibb
For some reason, I'm the guy people love to hate, which I think is weird. People who know me find that very strange, but for some reason, I am. I don't mind being that guy - I have fun with it.
Dave Bautista
Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.
Brian Sandoval
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this - that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
Francis Bacon