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.
Roger Bacon (1928). “The Opus majus of Roger Bacon: a translation of Robert Belle Burke”
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