Mede Quotes

That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Pliny tells us that Demokritos was instructed in magic by Ostanes the Mede. View quote
Osthanes
Ostanes, the Mede, was one of the celebrated early alchemists. Several writers have recorded for us the existence of a book called The Book of the Divine Prescriptions, which seems to have been the most famous writing of these Persian sages. View quote
Osthanes
The Vision of the Image composed of four Metals was given first to Nebuchadnezzar, and then to Daniel in a dream: and Daniel began then to be celebrated for revealing of secrets, Ezek. xxviii. 3. The Vision of the four Beasts, and of the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven, was also given to Daniel in a dream. That of the Ram and the He-Goat appeared to him in the day time, when he was by the bank of the river Ulay; and was explained to him by the prophetic Angel Gabriel. It concerns the Prince of the host, and the Prince of Princes: and now in the first year of Darius the Mede over Babylon, the same prophetic Angel appears to Daniel again, and explains to him what is meant by the Son of man, by the Prince of the host, and the Prince of Princes. View quote
Isaac Newton