Nature's Great Book Is Written In Mathematics.

But, Because My Private Lectures And Domestic Pupils Are A Great Hinderance And Intteruption Of My Studies, I Wish To Live Entirely Exempt From The Former, And In Great Measure From The Latter. ... In Short, I Should Wish To Gain My Bread From My Writings.

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

Being Infinitely Amazed, So Do I Give Thanks To God, Who Has Been Pleased To Make Me The First Observer Of Marvelous Things, Unrevealed To Bygone Ages.

The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after Observing The Medicaean Plants Several Times With Me ... Has Now Invited Me To Attach Myself To Him With The Annual Salary Of One Thousand Florins, And With The Title Of Philosopher And Principal Mathematicial To His Highness; Without The Duties Of Office To Perform, But With The Most Complete Leisure; So That I Can Complete My Treatises.

It Is Very Pious To Say And Prudent To Affirm That The Holy Bible Can Never Speak Untruth -- Whenever Its True Meaning Is Understood. But I Believe Nobody Will Deny That It Is Often Very Abstruse, And May Say Things Which Are Quite Different From Wha.