"You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work."

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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

— Roger Bacon