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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.

All Science Requires Mathematics.

For If Any Man Who Never Saw Fire Proved By Satisfactory Arguments That Fire Burns. His Hearer's Mind Would Never Be Satisfied, Nor Would He Avoid The Fire Until He Put His Hand In It That He Might Learn By Experiment What Argument Taught.

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.

Argument Is Conclusive, But It Does Not Remove Doubt, So That The Mind May Rest In The Sure Knowledge Of The Truth, Unless It Finds It By The Method Of Experiment.