Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon, OFM, also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empirical methods. In the early modern era, he was regarded as a wizard and particularly famed for the story of his mechanical or necromantic brazen head. He is sometimes creditedas one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method inspired by Aristotle and by later scholars such as the Arab...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Roger Bacon quotes about
learning doorways language
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
language language-learning conquest
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.