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• All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact…
• Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
• For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
• The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences…
• All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not…
• All science requires mathematics.
• As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts…
• [I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations…
• There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these…
• Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
• The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
• Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things…

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