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Robert Grosseteste

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Robert Grosseteste · c. 1168–1253

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“A poor boy from Suffolk, nicknamed "big head," bloomed late, learned Greek in his sixties, told the pope no to his face — and sketched the frame that Western experimental science would one day fill in.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 94

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“The universe began as a single point of light unfolding itself by mathematical law — and because nature is built out of geometry, the way to understand it is to measure, calculate, and test.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 94

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