Albertus Magnus
Medieval scholar who integrated Aristotelian philosophy with empirical observation, writing on plants and minerals with the quote that nature is the art of God.
Quotes by Albertus Magnus
The study of nature is the study of God's handiwork.
In every natural thing there is something marvelous.
Science does not consist in knowing what has been said, but in understanding what is true.
The aim of natural science is not simply to know the facts, but to know the causes of the facts.
Truth is the conformity of the intellect to the thing.
All knowledge begins in the senses.
Nature does nothing in vain.
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.
To understand is to know the cause.
The wise man seeks not to know the number of things, but their nature.
Experience is the best teacher.
The more we know, the more we realize how much we don't know.
Every agent acts for an end.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
The greatest good is the knowledge of God.
Nature is the art of God.
The human intellect is capable of knowing all things.
There is no knowledge without sensation.
The end of all things is to return to their beginning.
The universe is a book written by the hand of God.