Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Many small make a great.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Science

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1868). “The Canterbury Tales: To Which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Together with Notes and a Glossary, in three volumes”, p.215

• I wol yow telle, as was me taught also,
  The foure spirites and the bodies sevene,
  By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene.
  The firste spirit quiksilver called is,
  The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis,
  Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon.
  The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon:
  Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe,
  Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe,
  Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin,
  And Venus coper, by my fader kin!

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Science, Moon, Iron

• For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
  Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere;
  And out of olde bokis, in good fey,
  Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Science, Men, Fey

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1879). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: To which are Appended Poems Attributed to Chaucer”

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