“Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.”

I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

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

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.

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

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.

Nonetheless, it moves.

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

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he’s done some good action movies too.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

I always question whether it’s the right time for anything I do.

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

There’s responsibility, but there’s also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.