Author: Roger Bacon

Quotes

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

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

- Roger Bacon

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.

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.

- Roger Bacon

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.

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.

- Roger Bacon

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

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

- Roger Bacon

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