Roger Bacon Quotes

I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

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.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Mathematics is the true language that the universe is written in. They key to understanding the world around us.

I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could be used as a tool to analyze and understand the modern world.

Science is a quest for understanding.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

All science requires mathematics.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.