Cease To Be Ruled By

There Are Two Modes Of Knowledge: Through Argument And Through Experience. Argument Brings Conclusions And Compels Us To Concede Them, But It Does Not Cause Certainty Nor Remove Doubts That The Mind May Rest In Truth, Unless This Is Provided By Experience.

No One Really Knew The Sciences Except The Lord Robert, Bishop Of Lincoln, By Reason Of His Length Of Life And Experience, As Well As Of His Studiousness And Zeal. He Knew Mathematics And Perspective, And There Was Nothing Which He Was Unable To Know; And At The Same Time He Was Sufficiently Acquainted With Languages To Be Able To Understand The Saints And The Philosophers And The Wise Men Of Antiquity But His Knowledge Of Languages Was Not Such As To Enable Him To Effect Translations Until The Latter Portion Of His Life.

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.

First, By The Figurations Of Art There Be Made Instruments Of Navigation Without Men To Row Them, As Great Ships To Brooke The Sea, Only With One Man To Steer Them, And They Shall Sail Far More Swiftly Than If They Were Full Of Men; Also Chariots That Shall Move With Unspeakable Force Without Any Living Creature To Stir Them. Likewise An Instrument May Be Made To Fly Withall If One Sits In The Midst Of The Instrument, And Do Turn An Engine, By Which The Wings, Being Artificially Composed, May Beat The Air After The Manner Of A Flying Bird.

Cease To Be Ruled By Dogmas And Authorities; Look At The World!