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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.

Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.