“Nature is written in mathematical language.”

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.

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.

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).

Language is never innocent.

Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language.

Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.

And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.