Holy Writ Was Intended To Teach Men

The Greatest Wisdom Is To Get To Know Oneself.

You Cannot Teach A Person Something He Does Not Already Know, You Can Only Bring What He Does Know To His Awareness.

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 To Refute The Latter I Collected Many Proofs, But I Do Not Publish Them ...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.

Their Vain Presumption Of Knowing All Can Take Beginning Solely From Their Never Having Known Anything; For If One Has But Once Experienced The Perfect Knowledge Of One Thing, And Truly Tasted What It Is To Know, He Shall Perceive That Of Infinite Other Conclusions He Understands Not So Much As One.

Philosophy Is Written In That Great Book Which Ever Lies Before Our Eyes — I Mean The Universe — But We Cannot Understand It If We Do Not First Learn The Language And Grasp The Symbols, In Which It Is Written.