Nicholas Oresme Quotes on Knowledge
Nicholas Oresme was a French scholastic philosopher, mathematician, economist, theologian, and bishop of Lisieux, and one of the most original thinkers of the fourteenth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Nicholas Oresme on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nicholas Oresme:
“It is mathematically as reasonable to suppose the Earth turns daily as to suppose the heavens do.”
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“Quantities of any kind may be represented by lines and surfaces.”
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“Many natural marvels can be explained by ordinary causes, if we examine them with care.”
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“Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property.”
Ch. 22: Whether the community may alter money. -
“Ch. 22: Whether the community may alter money.”
Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property. -
“Book II, Ch. 2, p. 279.”
God in His infinite grandeur without any quantity and absolutely indivisible, which we call immensity, is necessarily all in every extension or space or place which exists or can be imagined. -
“The heavenly bodies move with such regularity, orderliness, and symmetry that it is truly a marvel; and they continue always to act in this manner ceaselessly, following the established system, without increasing or reducing speed and continuing without respite, as the Scripture says: Summer and winter, night and day they never rest.”
Book II, Ch. 2, p. 283.