Mathematics Is The Key And Door To

Nature Is Relentless And Unchangeable, And It Is Indifferent As To Whether Its Hidden Reasons And Actions Are Understandable To Man Or Not.

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.

What Has Philosophy Got To Do With Measuring Anything? It's The Mathematicians You Have To Trust, And They Measure The Skies Like We Measure A Field.

Wine Is Sunlight, Held Together By Water.

It Reveals To Me The Causes Of Many Natural Phenomena That Are Entirely Incomprehensible In The Light Of The Generally Accepted Hypotheses. To Refute The Latter I Collected Many Proofs, But I Do Not Publish Them ... I Would Dare To Publish My Speculations If There Were People Men Like You.