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

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.

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

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 judgesover experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please?These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin ofcommonwealths and the subversion of the state.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

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