Showing posts with label Bacon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bacon. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

without a compass......................

 

     Never to examine, never to question: thus youth was taught at Cambridge.  Many in the universities, wrote Bacon, "learn nothing there but to believe."  From the sea of knowledge rose the classic Pillars of Hercules, boundary beyond which man durst not venture.  To those with ambition to pass the Pillars—in Bacon's phrase to sail plus ultra—the University offered no compass.

-Catherine Drinker Bowen, Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man


Thursday, November 2, 2017

Don't know about you, but...............


.......................................I'll be eating my bacon.



Takes a better photographer to capture pink chalk on a blackboard, but the caption reads, "Dinosaurs had no bacon - Look how that worked out"    The fine print adds, "Have a great day & make good choices."