Occupation: Physicist Birth: February 15, 1564 Death: January 8, 1642
You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them..
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics..
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly..
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself..
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them..
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him..
Two truths cannot contradict one another..
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom..
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man..
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use..
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs..
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations..
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual..
Wine is sunlight, held together by water..
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go..
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 ….
Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured..
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe..
Nonetheless, it moves..
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When….
Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside..