A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal..

First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only with one man….

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics..

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvio….

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what ….

Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a late….

But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some nature hindering species, and resist….

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences..

Atheists are like wild feral dogs wih no master. But Christians are like loving dogs with a giving and loving master. Domesticated dogs will love you….

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.].

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom..

It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, the….

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt..

To ask the proper question is half of knowing..

One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln..

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience..

Mathematics is the gate and key to science..

There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow….

As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he has….

No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well as of his studious….

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar..