I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
And yet it moves.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
