Ignorance Quote by Roger Bacon

“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

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes,…

— Anonymous

We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or…

— John Desmond Bernal

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

— John G. Kemeny

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

— Woodrow Wilson

“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes".”

— Robert A. Heinlein

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things…

— Anonymous

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

— Abraham Kaplan

Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the…

— Roger Bacon

“The ability for a person to operate satisfactorily in a thing is dependent on how much he knows about that thing. Ignorance is a…

— Yusuf A. Leinge