“Nonetheless, it moves.”

In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.

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

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.

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

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.

We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.

What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.

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.

You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can’t tell you whether someone will fit into a company’s culture.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.