Roger Bacon Quotes

• There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely, by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

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• Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences.

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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 which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it. For laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

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• For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer’s mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

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• Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

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• Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

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• The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

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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 which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

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• For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

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Roger Bacon (9)

Birth:	1214
Death:	1294
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Philosopher

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Roger Bacon was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empirical methods.

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