The Conquest Of Learning Is Achieved Through

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.

Experimental Science Is The Queen Of Knowledge.

Few Have Attained To Consummate Wisdom In The Perfection Of Philosophy: Solomon Attained To It, And Aristotle In Relation To His Times, And In A Later Age Avicenna, And In Our Own Days The Recently Deceased Robert, Bishop Of Lincoln, And Adam Marsh.

Neglect Of Mathematics Work Injury To All Knowledge, Since He Who Is Ignorant Of It Cannot Know The Other Sciences Or Things Of This World. And What Is Worst, Those Who Are Thus Ignorant Are Unable To Perceive Their Own Ignorance, And So Do Not Seek A Remedy.

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