Robert Grosseteste Quote

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


De Luce seu De Inchoatione Formarum (On Light or On The Beginning of Forms) [1220], trans. A. C. Crombie, quoted in A. C. Crombie, Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science, 1100–1700 (1953)


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

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

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

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