#AlbertusMagnus

“The only medieval thinker called "the Great" in his own lifetime spent that lifetime on two projects — translating an entire pagan science into his own civilization, and teaching a quiet, overweight student the rest of the world had written off. Both worked.”

“Faith has nothing to fear from knowledge — so digest all of it: make the whole of Aristotle, and the whole of nature, intelligible to Christian Europe, and check the books against your own eyes.”