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Nonetheless, it moves.
See now the power of truth.
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
Nature is written in mathematical language.
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
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.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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.
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.