Omnia Apud Me Mathematica Fiunt.

To Live Without Philosophizing Is In Truth The Same As Keeping The Eyes Closed Without Attempting To Open Them.

As I Considered The Matter Carefully It Gradually Came To Light That All Those Matters Only Were Referred To Mathematics In Which Order And Measurements Are Investigated, And That It Makes No Difference Whether It Be In Numbers, Figures, Stars, Sounds Or Any Other Object That The Question Of Measurement Arises. I Saw Consequently That There Must Be Some General Science To Explain That Element As A Whole Which Gives Rise To Problems About Order And Measurement, Restricted As These Are To No Special Subject Matter. This, I Perceived Was Called 'universal Mathematics'.

[about Pierre De Fermat] It Cannot Be Denied That He Has Had Many Exceptional Ideas, And That He Is A Highly Intelligent Man. For My Part, However, I Have Always Been Taught To Take A Broad Overview Of Things, In Order To Be Able To Deduce From Them General Rules, Which Might Be Applicable Elsewhere.

In God There Is An Infinitude Of Things Which I Cannot Comprehend, Nor Possibly Even Reach In Any Way By Thought; For It Is The Nature Of The Infinite That My Nature, Which Is Finite And Limited, Should Not Comprehend It.

Give Me Extension And Motion And I Will Construct The Universe.