Causes Quote by Bertrand Russell

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of…

— Thomas Young

The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The thirteenth-century philosopher Roger Bacon claimed that “nobody can obtain to proficiency in the science of mathematics by the method hitherto known unless he…

— Joshua Foer

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— George Henry Lewes

“Grosseteste influenced Roger Bacon's ideas about mathematics and Nature. Bacon wrote hundreds of pages on the subject and, indeed, no historical figure has ever…

— John D. Barrow

Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known; yet…

— George Henry Lewes

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]

— Roger Bacon

Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

— Thomas Carlyle

I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man,…

— Mark Rylance

After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in promoting an…

— Andrew Dickson White

“The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences which may be called "sciences as…

— Anonymous