In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.

- Robert Grosseteste

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number…

- Robert Grosseteste

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.

- Robert Grosseteste

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

- Robert Grosseteste

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one wil…

- Robert Grosseteste

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your ki…

- Robert Grosseteste

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful,…

- Robert Grosseteste

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all ret…

- Robert Grosseteste

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near th…

- Robert Grosseteste