Robert Grosseteste Quote

Every operation in nature is in the shortest, best ordered, briefest, and best possible way.


De iride published in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters, IX (1912) pp.74-75 as quoted in Carl B. Boyer, The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics (1959)


Every operation in nature is in the shortest, best ordered, briefest, and best possible way.

Every operation in nature is in the shortest, best ordered, briefest, and best possible way.

Every operation in nature is in the shortest, best ordered, briefest, and best possible way.

Every operation in nature is in the shortest, best ordered, briefest, and best possible way.