Mathematics Is The Gate And Key To

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.

Argument Is Conclusive, But It Does Not Remove Doubt.

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.

[i]f In Other Sciences We Should Arrive At Certainty Without Doubt And Truth Without Error, It Behooves Us To Place The Foundations Of Knowledge In Mathematics, In So Far As Disposed Through It We Are Able To Reach Certainty In Other Sciences And Truth By The Exclusion Of Error.

Experimental Science Is The Queen Of Knowledge.