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

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.

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

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.

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

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.

Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

Failure is predictable if you break laws, success is predictable if you obey laws. I discovered and learned that truth when I was 14 years old. Not everyone discovers that. Some people take a lifetime to learn that.

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.