13th-century Scientist Quotes

Albertus Magnus

Arnaldus de Villa Nova

We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.

Albertus Magnus

The physician must be learned in diagnosing, careful and accurate in prescribing, circumspect and cautious in answering questions, ambiguous in making prognosis, just in making promises; and he should not promise health because in doing so he would assume a divine function and insult God.

Arnaldus de Villa Nova