Anybody who has seen an ad for the Oxford English dictionary, which is 20 volumes, or an ad for Encyclopedia Britannica, which is Lord knows how many more volumes, knows you can fit an awful lot of data on one CD.


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FRANCIS BACON
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, ...
FRANCIS BACON
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize...
FRANCIS BACON
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
FRANCIS BACON
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
FRANCIS BACON
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACON
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
FRANCIS BACON
In charity there is no excess.
FRANCIS BACON
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactl...
FRANCIS BACON
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient i...
FRANCIS BACON
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug...
FRANCIS BACON
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ...
FRANCIS BACON
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images...
FRANCIS BACON
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ...
FRANCIS BACON
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACON
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
FRANCIS BACON
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
FRANCIS BACON
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe...
FRANCIS BACON
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this u...
FRANCIS BACON
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
FRANCIS BACON
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure kno...
ROGER BACON
Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
FRANCIS BACON
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with b...
FRANCIS BACON
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself,...
FRANCIS BACON
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
FRANCIS BACON
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
FRANCIS BACON
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
FRANCIS BACON
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingraine...
FRANCIS BACON
God's first creature, which was light.
FRANCIS BACON
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
FRANCIS BACON
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
FRANCIS BACON