The Laws Of Nature Are Written In

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.

Among The Great Men Who Have Philosophized About [the Action Of The Tides], The One Who Surprised Me Most Is Kepler. He Was A Person Of Independent Genius, [but He] Became Interested In The Action Of The Moon On The Water, And In Other Occult Phenomena, And Similar Childishness.

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.

Nature . . . Is Inexorable And Immutable; She Never Transgresses The Laws Imposed Upon Her, Nor Cares A Whit Whether Her Abstruse Reasons And Methods Of Operations Are Understandable To Men.

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.