22 Quotes by Robert Grosseteste

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.

In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.