To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
Roger BaconRead
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
Interpretation
Experience is essential for validating arguments; true knowledge comes from experimentation.
Roger Bacon emphasizes the importance of empirical evidence in science, highlighting that arguments, no matter how convincing, hold no weight unless they are supported by real-world experience. He argues that experimental science should be the foundation of knowledge, serving as the guiding force behind all theoretical speculation.
In practice
In a science seminar, to illustrate the importance of experimental verification.
To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.
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