Roger Bacon:

For in the books of the Gentiles, and of the Saracens, and of all unbelievers, there is much that is useful for the understanding of the Scriptures, and for the government of the world, and for the correction of morals, as well as for the sciences.

— Roger Bacon Medieval

Early advocate of scientific method

Context

Opus Majus, Part III, Chapter I

Date / Period

c. 1267

Source

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/bacon-opusmajus.asp

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