Mathematics Is The Gate And Key To

But We Must Here State That We Should Not See Anything If There Were A Vacuum. But This Would Not Be Due To Some Nature Hindering Species, And Resisting It, But Because Of The Lack Of A Nature Suitable For The Multiplication Of Species; For Species Is A Natural Thing, And Therefore Needs A Natural Medium; But In A Vacuum Nature Does Not Exist.

For If Any Man Who Never Saw Fire Proved By Satisfactory Arguments That Fire Burns. His Hearer's Mind Would Never Be Satisfied, Nor Would He Avoid The Fire Until He Put His Hand In It That He Might Learn By Experiment What Argument Taught.

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.

Argument Is Conclusive, But It Does Not Remove Doubt.

All Science Requires Mathematics. [editors' Summary Of Bacon's Idea, Not Bacon's Wording.]