God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

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

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

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

You get a few of them together and don’t be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in…

You know how you get rid of tears?” I asked. He shook his head. “You find somebody you love and you hug them.

Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy.

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

Your body is incredible at 'detoxing'. It's called pooping & sweating. Best 'detox diet' = regular exercise, eating more veggies, fruit, healthy fats, lean meat, some grains and drinking more water.

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together.

While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.

Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another.

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.