All Science Requires Mathematics. [editors' Summary Of

In The Mathematics I Can Report No Deficience, Except That It Be That Men Do Not Sufficiently Understand The Excellent Use Of The Pure Mathematics, In That They Do Remedy And Cure Many Defects In The Wit And Faculties Intellectual. For If The Wit Be Too Dull, They Sharpen It; If Too Wandering, They Fix It; If Too Inherent In The Sense, They Abstract It.

[i]f 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, In So Far As Disposed Through It We Are Able To Reach Certainty In Other Sciences And Truth By The Exclusion Of Error.

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

One Man Alone Had Really Known The Sciences, Namely, Robert, Bishop Of Lincoln.

Reasoning Draws A Conclusion, But Does Not Make The Conclusion Certain, Unless The Mind Discovers It By The Path Of Experience.