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„Aufgabe der Naturwissenschaft ist es nicht, alles, was berichtet wird, einfach hinzunehmen. Sie hat vielmehr die Ursachen im Naturgeschehen zu ergründen.“

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Übersetzung zitiert nach: Roland Popp und Birgit Steib, Albertus Magnus - der große Neugierige, 01.11.2003, spectrum.de http://www.spektrum.de/magazin/albertus-magnus-der-grosse-neugierige/830312
Original lat.: "Scientiae enim naturalis non est simpliciter narrata accipere, sed in rebus naturalibus inquirere causas." - Mineralium, Liber II: Qui est de lapidibus pretiosis, Tractatus 2: De Lapidibus pretiosis et eorum virtutibus, Caput I: De lapidibus pretiosis incipientibus ab A, zitiert nach D. Alberti Magni, Opera omnia, Hrsg. Augusti Borgnet, Volumen Quiintum, Paris 1890, S. 30, dritter Satz, (PDF: 79,8MB) http://albertusmagnus.uwaterloo.ca/PDFs/Borgnet-volumen%2005.pdf

„Allein Beobachtung gibt nämlich derartigen Dingen Gewissheit.“

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De vegetabilibus et plantis, Liber sextus: De speciebus quarumdam plantarum, Tractatus 1: De Arboribus, Caput I: De ABIETE et speciebus ejus, zitiert nach D. Alberti Magni, Opera omnia, Hrsg. Augusti Borgnet, Volumen Deciumum: Parva Naturalia, Paris 1891, S. 160, zweiter Satz, (PDF: 81,1MB) http://albertusmagnus.uwaterloo.ca/PDFs/Borgnet-volumen%2010.pdf
Original lat.: "de particularibus enim etiam philosophia esse non poteriit. [...] Experimentum enim solum certificat in talibus, eo quod tam de particularibus naturis simile haberi non potest."

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“Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.”

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Attributed to Albertus Magnus in: Albertus Magnus; cited in: Morris Bishop (1968) The Middle Ages. p. 252.

“If the excrement of an elephant should be smeared on skin in which lice appear and left until it dries upon the skin, the lice will not remain on it but will depart immediately. If the fat of an elephant is smeared with it, it is said to cure the pain of one who suffers a headache; it is even said that if an ounce of elephant bone is drunk with ten ounces of wild mountain mint from something which a leper first touched, it does the most for a headache.”

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Twenty-Six Books on Animals [De animalibus libri XXVI]; cited in: Plinio Prioreschi (1996) A History of Medicine: Medieval Medicine. p. 94.

“Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.”

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Attributed to Albertus Magnus in: R.C. Bless (1996) Discovering the cosmos. p. 686.

“This dumb ox will fill the world with his bellowing.”

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Attributed to Albertus Magnus in: Anne Jackson Fremantle (1962) The Great Ages of Western Philosophy : The Age of Belief : The Medieval Philosophers
Albertus Magnus, in response to other of his students calling Thomas Aquinas a "dumb ox" because of his quietude.