Ability Quote by Roger Bacon

“His idea was to begin with those broad truths that must underlie all conceivable mental existences and establish a basis on those. The great…

— H.G. Wells

“What we should do, I suggest, is to give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is human;…

— Karl R. Popper

“In his eulogy, the Marquis de Condorcet observed that whosoever pursues mathematics in the future will be "guided and sustained by the genius of…

— William Dunham

“Philo of Larisa, head of the Academy in Athens....inspired Cicero with a passion for philosophy, and in particular for the theories of Skepticism, which…

— Anthony Everitt

“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.”

— Isaac Asimov

“But even if all agreed together, it would not be enough to have their teachings. For we shall never be mathematicians, say, even if…

— René Descartes

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“According to the Prophet, the four blemishes of knowledge are boasting of one’s knowledge and feeling superior on account of it to recognized scholars,…

— Franz Rosenthal

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a…

— Mary Everest Boole

“Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title…

— Roger Bacon

“The seeker after truth is not one who studies the writings of the ancients and, following his natural disposition, puts his trust in them,"…

— Ibn al-Haytham