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Scientific Knowledge is a mode of conception dealing with universals and things that are
of necessity; and demonstrated truths and all scientific knowledge （since this
involves reasoning） are derived from first principles. Consequently the first
principles from which scientific truths are derived cannot themselves be reached by
Science; nor yet are they apprehended by Art, nor by Prudence. To be matter of Scientific
Knowledge a truth must be demonstrated by deduction from other truths; while Art and
Prudence are concerned only with things that admit of variation. Nor is Wisdom the
knowledge of first principles either1: for the philosopher has to arrive at some things by
demonstration.2
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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