All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone, but for the other parts; as the eye guides the body and the foot sustains it and leads it from place to place.
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 … - Roger Bacon
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 …
- Roger Bacon
To ask the proper question is half of knowing. - Roger Bacon
To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. - Roger Bacon
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. - Roger Bacon
Mathematics is the gate and key to science.
Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world! - Roger Bacon
Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!
A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal. - Roger Bacon
A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal.
There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does no… - Roger Bacon
There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does no…
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… - Roger Bacon
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and…
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… - Roger Bacon
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…
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