I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
