Education Quote by Joshua Foer

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

— Carl Sagan

For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone.…

— Anonymous

It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by…

— Cornelius Lanczos

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“The only writer of the Middle Ages to describe cryptography instead of just using it was Roger Bacon, the English monk of startlingly modern…

— David Kahn

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal. With their leaves of fiber,…

— Matthew Battles

“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

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

Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn…

— George Henry Lewes

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

— Sara Paretsky