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.

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.