14 quotes
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
“Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.”
"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
on Wisdom
"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards."
on Language
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
on Philosophy
"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
on Faith
"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."
on Truth
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
"Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured."
on Science
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations."
"We cannot teach people anything we can only help them discover it within themselves."
on Education
"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."
"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."
"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself."
