"They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction."

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

"The sun, with all he planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do."

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

"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe"

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

"In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper."

"E pur si muove. (It still moves.) (What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)"

"The sun with all the planets around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do."

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

"And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."

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

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

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

"To me, a great ineptitude exists on the part of those who would have it that God made the universe more in proportion to the small capacity of their reason than to His immense, His infinite, power."

"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."