I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It’s not a book about how the heavens go.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.