Editors Quote by Roger Bacon

All science requires mathematics.

— Roger Bacon

“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

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is…

— Roger Bacon

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

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

— Freeman Dyson

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

— Scarlett Thomas

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

— Edward Kasner

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

— David Hilbert

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

— Roger Bacon

“Mathematics is not a science from our point of view, in the sense that it is not a natural science. The test of its…

— Richard P. Feynman