Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
GALILEO GALILEIBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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