Sublime

find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

Lionel Rothschild, a great friend of Disraeli, who made history by financing Britain’s purchase of the Suez Canal in 1875. But it is Lionel’s son, Natty (1840-1915), described by Miriam as gruff, sentimental, and dapper, who ranks as one of the most brilliant financiers of all time. In the popular press he was considered the real ruler of England,

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubt, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. —Francis Bacon

“Knowledge is power,” wrote Francis Bacon. But Bacon’s vast knowledge did not keep him from taking bribes and falling into disgrace. Clearly, Bacon’s knowledge did not have the power to save him from himself.[a.] What Bacon overlooked, we now make explicit: Knowledge is useful in the service of an appropriate Model of the Universe[b.] , and not oth

Let me just give you a good piece of news. A single bag of Lay’s has less salt than a slice of bread. DR: Really? IN: Yes, because it’s surface salt. For bread you need it as a leavening agent. In soup you need it as a preservative. With potato chips, it’s a surface salt, so it’s actually three ingredients in a bag of Lay’s: a little bit of salt, p

Thomas Bayes was an English minister who was probably born in 1701—although it may have been 1702. Very little is certain about Bayes’s life, even though he lent his name to an entire branch of statistics and perhaps its most famous theorem.