Roger Bacon:

It is a great shame that Christians neglect the study of languages, which is so necessary for the understanding of the divine law.

— Roger Bacon Medieval

Early advocate of scientific method

Opus Majus, Part III, Chapter I

c. 1267

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"For the infidels possess many excellent things, and much wisdom, from which we Christians can derive profit."

"The true wisdom is not to be found in the books of the Latins, but in the books of the Greeks and Arabs."

"The philosophers of the ancients, and especially the Arabs, have excelled us in many things."

"The secrets of nature are not revealed to those who rely on books alone."

"Without experiment, nothing can be sufficiently known."