1. “The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.”
2. “Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.”
3. “Mathematic is the gate and key to science.”
4. “It is easier for a man burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.”
5. “Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.”
6. “Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.”
7. “To ask he proper question is half of knowing.”
8. “A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.”
9. “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.”
10. “A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal.”
11. “For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.”
12. “Experimental science is the queen of knowledge.”
13. “If 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.”
14. “The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy and a laughing stock from a mathematician’s point of view.”
15. “All science requires mathematics.”
