"Enthusiastic, a bit childlike, occasionally ironic," is how Bacon describes his on-air style.
Bacon describes her as someone who "cares about presenters more than she does management.
With a characteristic touch of cynicism, Bacon described contemporary art as "entirely a game by which man distracts himself".
Bacon described spectacles (which also soon came into use); elucidated the principles of reflection, refraction, and spherical aberration; and proposed mechanically propelled ships and carriages.
Moon Juice products, which Bacon describes as "medicinal-grade," are labelled according to their purported effect on she who consumes them: Beauty Food, Stress Reliever, Joy Promoter, Brain Activator.
Bacon describes the object of moral inquiry as follows: "This science is preeminently active, that is, operative, and deals with our actions in this life and the other life" ([RBMP], 3).
Bacon described how first to collect and organize natural phenomena and experimental facts in tables, how to evaluate these lists, and how to refine the initial results with the help of further experiments.
The paintings gave him stature, a raison d'etre, and offered meaning to what Bacon described as Dyer's "brief interlude between life and death".
The beginning of the book provides background on the phrase "bringing home the bacon", introduces the reader to types of bacon and describes storage methods.
In a live demonstration conducted in 2006 with the celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal, Spence found that when people were served a scoop of bacon-and-egg ice cream accompanied by the sound of sizzling bacon they described the taste of the ice cream as much more "bacony" than subjects whose consumption was accompanied by the clucking of chickens.
In Germany a contemporary of Bacon, Albertus Magnus, described powder charge formulas for rockets in his book De mirabilibus mundi.
