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Robert Grosseteste was an English bishop, scholar, and philosopher who made significant contributions to science and theology. As Bishop of Lincoln, he played a key role in church reform and promoted education. He is remembered as a pioneer of scientific method and a leading thinker of the medieval period. Here are 36 of his quotes:

Nor is primitive matter productive of motion, because it is itself passive. (Robert Grosseteste)

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

Robert Grosseteste

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Robert Grosseteste

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.

Robert Grosseteste

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

Robert Grosseteste

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.

Robert Grosseteste

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

Robert Grosseteste

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

Robert Grosseteste

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

Robert Grosseteste

Power from natural agents may go by a short line, and then in its activity greater... But if by a straight line then its action is stronger and better, as Aristotle says in Book V of the Physics, because nature operates in the shortest way possible. But the straight line is the shortest of all, as he says in the same place.

Robert Grosseteste

The experimental universal is acquired by us, whose mind's eye is not purely spiritual, only through the help of the senses. For when the senses several times observe two singular occurrences, of which one is the cause of the other or is related to it in some other way, and they do not see the connection between them... And from this perception repeated again and again and stored in memory, and from the sensory knowledge from which the perception is built up, the functioning of the reasoning begins. The functioning reason therefore begins to wonder and to consider whether things really are as the sensible recollection says, and these two lead the reason to experiment... But when he has administered many times with the sure exclusion of all other things [that could be mistaken for the cause]... then there is formed in the reason this universal... and this is the way in which it comes from sensation to a universal experimental principle. (Robert Grosseteste)

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Robert Grosseteste

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Occupation: English Bishop
Born: 1175
Died: October 2, 1253
Quotes count: 36
Wikipedia: Robert Grosseteste

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