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Every operation in nature is in the shortest, best ordered, briefest, and best possible way.

— Robert Grosseteste

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The head is borne towards the heavens and has two lights, as it were the sun and moon.

The space of the real physical world must be considered full, that is a plenum, because a vacuum could have no physical existence.

Commentarius in VIII Libros Physicorum Aristoteles (1230)

The diligent investigator of natural phenomena can give the causes of all natural effects... by the rules and roots and foundations given from the power of geometry.

Nor is primitive matter productive of motion, because it is itself passive.

De Luce seu de Inchoatione Formarum (1215)

The first corporeal form, which some call corporeity, I hold to be light.

De Luce seu de Inchoatione Formarum (1215)

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Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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