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

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Opus Majus, Part III, Chapter I

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c. 1267

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Controversial

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

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