Passion is the genesis of genius.
Eppur si muove.
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.
Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!
To our natural and human reason, I say that these terms ‘large,’ ‘small,’ ‘immense,’ ‘minute,’ etc. are not absolute but relative; the same thing in comparison with various others may be called at one time ‘immense’ and at another ’imperceptible.
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.