Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.

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.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.