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Roger Bacon

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If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics...


— Roger Bacon


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Wissenschaft ist Macht.


— Roger Bacon


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It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.


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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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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


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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.


— Roger Bacon


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


— Roger Bacon


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About this work John Maxson Stillman wrote that "there is nothing in it that is characteristic of Roger Bacon's style or ideas nor that distinguiRoger Bacons it from many unimportant alchemical lucubrations of anonymous writers of the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries". Bacon's personality has also been mentioned as a factor. He rejected the blind following of prior authorities both in theological and scientific study which was the accepted method of undertaking study in his day.

(c. 1214–1294) (scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis meaning "wonderful teacher") was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empirical methods. F.

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