The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

And yet it moves.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven not the way the heavens go.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.

Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth they sought to deny and disprove the new things which if they had cared to look for themselves their own senses would have demonstrated to them.

You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him find it within himself.

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

What was observed by us in the third place is the nature or matter of the Milky Way itself, which, with the aid of the spyglass, may be observed so well that all the disputes that for so many generations have vexed philosophers are destroyed by visible certainty, and we are liberated from wordy arguments.

Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.

The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.