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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Nature ... does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

And yet it moves.

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

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.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.

They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err ... its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

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.

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

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.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

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.

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

The greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.

See now the power of truth.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.