[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in m….

In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, i….

There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but d….

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

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 the gate and key to science..

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….

To ask the proper question is half of knowing..

Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!.

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….

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

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….

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 ….

There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does no….

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom..

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

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

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….

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….

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

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….