To Understand The Universe, You

But Of All Other Stupendous Inventions, What Sublimity Of Mind Must Have Been His Who Conceived How To Communicate His Most Secret Thoughts To Any Other Person, Though Very Far Distant Either In Time Or Place? And With No Greater Difficulty Than The Various Arrangement Of Two Dozen Little Signs Upon Paper? Let This Be The Seal Of All The Admirable Inventions Of Man.

Wine Is Sunlight, Held Together By Water.

I Truly Believe The Book Of Philosophy To Be That Which Stands Perpetually Open Before Our Eyes, Though Since It Is Written In Characters Different From Those Of Our Alphabet It Cannot Be Read By Everyone.

To Excite In Us Tastes, Odors, And Sounds I Believe That Nothing Is Required In External Bodies Except Shapes, Numbers, And Slow Or Rapid Movements. ... If Ears, Tongues, And Noses Were Removed, Shapes And Numbers And Motions Would Remain, But Not Odors Or Tastes Or Sounds.

And Believe Me, If I Were Again Beginning My Studies, I Should Follow The Advice Of Plato And Start With The Mathematical Sciences, Which Proceed Very Cautiously And Admit Nothing As Established Until It Has Been Rigorously Demonstrated.