The Divine Intellect Indeed Knows

Measure What Is Measurable, And Make Measurable What Is Not So.

Science Proceeds More By What It Has Learned To Ignore Than What It Takes Into Account.

To Excite In Us Tastes, Odors, And Sounds I Believe That Nothing Is Required In External Bodies Except Shapes, Numbers, And Slow Or Rapid Movements. ... If Ears, Tongues, And Noses Were Removed, Shapes And Numbers And Motions Would Remain, But Not Odors Or Tastes Or Sounds.

Surely, God Could Have Caused Birds To Fly With Their Bones Made Of Solid Gold, With Their Veins Full Of Quicksilver, With Their Flesh Heavier Than Lead, And With Their Wings Exceedingly Small. He Did Not, And That Ought To Show Something. It Is Only In Order To Shield Your Ignorance That You Put The Lord At Every Turn To The Refuge Of A Miracle.

Among The Great Men Who Have Philosophized About [the Action Of The Tides], The One Who Surprised Me Most Is Kepler. He Was A Person Of Independent Genius, [but He] Became Interested In The Action Of The Moon On The Water, And In Other Occult Phenomena, And Similar Childishness.