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. |
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. |
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. |
I mentally conceive of some movable projected on a horizontal plane all impediments being put aside. Now it is evident ... that the equable motion on this plane would be perpetual if the plane were of infinite extent; but if we assume it to be ended, |
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. |
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, wit |
I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night |
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. |
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. |
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. |
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. |
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. |
It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha |
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. |
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. |