If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
GALILEO GALILEINature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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