I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
“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.”
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
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.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.