A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing

The Strongest Arguments Prove Nothing So Long As The Conclusions Are Not Verified By Experience. Experimental Science Is The Queen Of Sciences And The Goal Of All Speculation.

All Sciences Are Connected; They Lend Each Other Material Aid As Parts Of One Great Whole, Each Doing Its Own Work, Not For Itself Alone, But For The Other Parts; As The Eye Guides The Body And The Foot Sustains It And Leads It From Place To Place.

For The Things Of This World Cannot Be Made Known Without A Knowledge Of Mathematics.

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.

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