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.
Beliefs • God • Intellect
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Beliefs • Faith • Philosophy
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Education • Mathematics • Philosophy
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Discovery • Knowledge • Motivational
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Authority • Reason • Science
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Astronomy • Nature • Productivity
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Paradox • Science
