Here is a great line I read from Johannes Kepler in A More Perfect Heaven by Dava Sobel:
Regard the Holy Spirit as a divine messenger, and refrain from wantonly dragging Him into physics class.
I also liked this quote from Georg Joachim Rheticus:
It is characteristic of the honorable mind to love nothing more ardently than truth, and, inspired by this desire, to seek a genuine science of universal nature, of religious, of the movements and effects of the heavens, of the causes of change, not only of animated bodies, but also of cities and realms, of the origins of noble duties and of other such things.
It's really too bad that Rheticus couldn't know about modern uses of mathematical modeling, because he mostly just used his number-crunching skills to tell fortunes and try to predict the future.
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