"I consider the best judge to be the one who knows how to listen to both sides."

"The greater the number of people who believe a proposition, the more likely it is to be false."

"And finally, if the earth were to stop spinning, then the water in the oceans would fly off, and the mountains would crumble. So it must be moving."

"The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator."

"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought not to begin at the authority of places of Scripture, but at sensible experiments and necessary demonstrations."