Quotations From ROGER BACON

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  All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us.... This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

  Roger Bacon (c. 1214-c. 1294), British philosopher, scientist. Opus Maius, pt. 4, ch. 1 (1267).
  
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