All Roger Bacon Quotes
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious… All
- Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. Certain
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. Knowledge
- 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… All
- 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,… Aid
- All science requires mathematics. All
- 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… Ability
- [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… Able
- There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate… Affair
- Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom. Doorway
- The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. Achieved
- 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.… All
- It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices. Burn
- Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds… Argument
- For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he… Any
- A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar. Any
- Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt. Argument
- Half of science is asking the right questions. Asking
- 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… Air
- Mathematics is the gate and key to science. Gate
- The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. All
- ... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences. Absolutely
- Experimental science is the queen of knowledge. Experimental
- There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause… Argument
- There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone… Allow