"Every operation in nature is in the shortest, best ordered, briefest, and best possible way."
— Nature

January 1, 1970

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Robert Grossteste De iride published in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters, IX (1912) pp.74-75 as quoted in Carl B. Boyer, The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics (1959)