To Understand The Universe, You Must Understand

All Truths Are Easy To Understand Once They Are Discovered; The Point Is To Discover Them.

And Who Can Doubt That It Will Lead To The Worst Disorders When Minds Created Free By God Are Compelled To Submit Slavishly To An Outside Will? When We Are Told To Deny Our Senses And Subject Them To The Whim Of Others? When People Devoid Of Whatsoever Competence Are Made Judges Over Experts And Are Granted Authority To Treat Them As They Please? These Are The Novelties Which Are Apt To Bring About The Ruin Of Commonwealths And The Subversion Of The State.

Some, Merely To Contradict What I Had Said, Did Not Scruple To Cast Doubt Upon Things They Had Seen With Their Own Eyes Again And Again.

The Universe Is A Grand Book Which Cannot Be Read Until One First Learns To Comprehend The Language And Become Familiar With The Characters In Which It Is Composed. It Is Written In The Language Of Mathematics.

I Believe That The Intention Of Holy Writ Was To Persuade Men Of The Truths Necessary To Salvation; Such As Neither Science Nor Other Means Could Render Credible, But Only The Voice Of The Holy Spirit.