Francis Seymour Stevenson on Albertus Magnus

“Of Albertus Magnus, the Doctor Universalis of the Dominicans, Roger Bacon writes that what is useful in his works might be summed up in a treatise twenty times as short as they are.”

“In speaking of Thomas Aquinas, who, it is true, had not attained at the time when Roger Bacon wrote to the commanding position of authority which was afterwards accorded to him in the schools, he couples him with Albertus Magnus, and says that they both became teachers before they had been adequately taught, and lectured on a philosophy and a theology which they had imperfectly learned.”