One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

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'.

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

Friends are only friends when the fights don't matter because you understand each other better in the end.

A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.