As long as you are occupied with the mathematical sciences and the technique of logic, you belong to those who walk around the palace in search of the gate.... When you complete your study of the natural sciences and get a grasp of the metaphysics, you enter into the inner courtyard and are in the same house as [God] he.

The Guide of the Perplexed, Book III, Chapter LI (p. 186), Hackett, Publishing Co. 1995