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Some Strangeness in the Proportion
posted 2002 by Booch
I was surprised to find this linked to Francis Bacon, but given the "strange proportions" of the phrasing, I guess that I should not have been. Previous to this, I had always associated the second half of this aphorism with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.