A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing

The Calendar Is Intolerable To All Wisdom, The Horror Of All Astronomy, And A Laughing Stock From A Mathematician's Point Of View.

As Regards Authority I So Proceed. Boetius Says In The Second Prologue To His Arithmetic, 'if An Inquirer Lacks The Four Parts Of Mathematics, He Has Very Little Ability To Discover Truth.' And Again, 'without This Theory No One Can Have A Correct Insight Into Truth.' And He Says Also, 'i Warn The Man Who Spurns These Paths Of Knowledge That He Cannot Philosophize Correctly.' And Again, 'it Is Clear That Whosoever Passes These By, Has Lost The Knowledge Of All Learning.'

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.

The Conquest Of Learning Is Achieved Through The Knowledge Of Languages.

But We Must Here State That We Should Not See Anything If There Were A Vacuum. But This Would Not Be Due To Some Nature Hindering Species, And Resisting It, But Because Of The Lack Of A Nature Suitable For The Multiplication Of Species; For Species Is A Natural Thing, And Therefore Needs A Natural Medium; But In A Vacuum Nature Does Not Exist.