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| It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. | | Uncategorized | |
| Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. | | Nature; Science | |
| Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages. | | Uncategorized | |
| Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language ... without whos | | Language; Mathematics; Philosophy | |
| So far as I know, no one has yet pointed out that the distance travelled in equal intervals of time, by a body falling from rest, stand to one another in the same ratio as the odd number beginning with 1'. | | Uncategorized | |
| Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself. | | Science | |
| The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go | | Uncategorized | |
| The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this ... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite q | | Uncategorized | |
| The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do. | | Universe; World | |
| They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.. | | Nature | |
| To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover. | | Uncategorized | |
| To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. ... if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not od | | Uncategorized | |
| We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves | | Uncategorized | |
| We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers. | | Uncategorized | |
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| You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. | | Men | |
