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To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

— Roger Bacon

Prudens quaestio dimidium scientiae.

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Half of science is asking the right questions.

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Peter Nicholls (1979)

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

Opus majus: A translation by Robert Belle Burke. Vol 1 (1962)

The strongest argument proves nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences, and the goal of all speculation.

But I did not work all that much, since in the pursuit of Wisdom this was not required.

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...

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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