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

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

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

Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

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

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

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

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

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

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.

Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you’re not dead!

Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

I was never angry with you. I was sad, because I was afraid you’d lost your way.

If you’re smart, you’ll think twice, when they start to sound off with advice.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do.

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.