" The proper concern of natural science is not what God could do if he wished, but what he has done; that is, what happens in the world “according to the inherent causes of nature”.’30 Aristotle had said that ‘to know . . . is to understand the causes of things’.31 We see here, in Albertus, the first "

― Peter Watson , Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud