There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

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

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

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.

The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven, rough, and full of cavities and prominences, being not unlike the face of the Earth, relieved by chains of mountains and deep valleys.

It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.