I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in whi...
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
If the Earth were not subject to any change I would consider the Earth a big but useless body in universe, paralyzed...superfluous and unnatural.Those who so exalt incorruptibility, unchangeability an...
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 can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for the...
We cannot teach people anything we can only help them discover it within themselves.
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
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.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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.
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