Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

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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.

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Nonetheless, it moves.

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

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

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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.

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

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Two truths cannot contradict one another.

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The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how 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.

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

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

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The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.

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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.

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