Roger Bacon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
-- Roger Bacon

#Inspirational #Education #Wisdom
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.
-- Roger Bacon

#Ignorance #Prejudice #Four
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
-- Roger Bacon

#Mind #Doe #Path
It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.
-- Roger Bacon

#Men #House #Prejudice
To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
-- Roger Bacon

#Knowledge #Knowing #Words Of Wisdom
Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!
-- Roger Bacon

#Looks #World #Dogma
There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.
-- Roger Bacon

#Education #Two #Doubt
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.
-- Roger Bacon

#Learning #Ignorance #Science
Mathematics is the gate and key to science.
-- Roger Bacon

#Math #Keys #Gates
Atheists are like wild feral dogs wih no master. But Christians are like loving dogs with a giving and loving master. Domesticated dogs will love you always, but Feral wild dogs HAVE to be put down. they are a danger to us all.
-- Roger Bacon

#Christian #Dog #Atheist
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

#Queens #Science #Long
There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.
-- Roger Bacon

#Wisdom #Ignorance #Men
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.
-- Roger Bacon

#Doubt #Doe #Argument
All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone, but for the other parts; as the eye guides the body and the foot sustains it and leads it from place to place.
-- Roger Bacon

#Eye #Science #Feet
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
-- Roger Bacon

#Knowledge #Math #World
A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.
-- Roger Bacon

#Crazy #Writing #Men
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
-- Roger Bacon

#Language #Language Learning #Conquest
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.
-- Roger Bacon

#Inspirational #Two #Doubt
Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.
-- Roger Bacon

#Philosophy #Perfection #Age
First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea, only with one man to steer them, and they shall sail far more swiftly than if they were full of men; also chariots that shall move with unspeakable force without any living creature to stir them. Likewise an instrument may be made to fly withall if one sits in the midst of the instrument, and do turn an engine, by which the wings, being artificially composed, may beat the air after the manner of a flying bird.
-- Roger Bacon

#Art #Moving #Men
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.
-- Roger Bacon

#People #Brain #Facts
It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, therefore, that anyone who claims that he can fly must have sought the aid of the devil. To attempt to fly is therefore sinful.
-- Roger Bacon

#Giving #Devil #Impossible
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate and key is mathematics ... He who is ignorant of this [mathematics] cannot know the other sciences nor the affairs of this world.
-- Roger Bacon

#Keys #Ignorant #World

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