All Roger Bacon Quotes
- 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
- 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… Acquiring
- To ask the proper question is half of knowing Ask
- If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundation of knowledge in… Arrive