But Concerning Vision Alone Is A Separate

No One Really Knew The Sciences Except The Lord Robert, Bishop Of Lincoln, By Reason Of His Length Of Life And Experience, As Well As Of His Studiousness And Zeal. He Knew Mathematics And Perspective, And There Was Nothing Which He Was Unable To Know; And At The Same Time He Was Sufficiently Acquainted With Languages To Be Able To Understand The Saints And The Philosophers And The Wise Men Of Antiquity But His Knowledge Of Languages Was Not Such As To Enable Him To Effect Translations Until The Latter Portion Of His Life.

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.

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.

Vacuum Stands And Remains A Mathematical Space. A Cube Placed In A Vacuum Would Not Displace Anything, As It Would Displace Air Or Water In A Space Already Containing Those Fluids.

A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing But None At All Is Fatal.