Mathematics Is The Gate And Key To

All Science Requires Mathematics.

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.

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.

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

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