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> [No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/no-one-really-knew-the-sciences-except-the-lord-robert-bishop-of/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

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> [Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/few-have-attained-to-consummate-wisdom-in-the-perfection-of/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

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> [One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/one-man-alone-had-really-known-the-sciences-namely-robert-bishop-of/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

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## More by Roger Bacon

> [ \[I\]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/i-f-in-other-sciences-we-should-arrive-at-certainty-without-doubt-and/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/knowledge-of-languages-is-the-doorway-to-wisdom/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/it-is-not-necessarily-impossible-for-human-beings-to-fly-but-it-so/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [“Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/now-there-are-four-chief-obstacles-in-grasping-truth-which-hinder/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/there-are-four-great-sciences-without-which-the-other-sciences-cannot/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/there-are-in-fact-four-very-significant-stumbling-blocks-in-the-way/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [ All science requires mathematics. \[Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/all-science-requires-mathematics-editors-summary-of-bacon-s-idea-not/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/if-in-other-sciences-we-should-arrive-at-certainty-without-doubt-and/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/there-are-in-fact-four-very-significant-stumblingblocks-in-the-way-of/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [To ask the proper question is half of knowing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/to-ask-the-proper-question-is-half-of-knowing/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/it-is-easier-for-a-man-to-burn-down-his-own-house-than-to-get-rid-of/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [“Wissenschaft ist Macht.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/wissenschaft-ist-macht/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/all-sciences-are-connected-they-lend-each-other-material-aid-as-parts/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/all-science-requires-mathematics-the-knowledge-of-mathematical-things/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

> [Half of science is asking the right questions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/half-of-science-is-asking-the-right-questions/)

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