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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.

Galileo Galilei

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Discover Easy Point Truth Understand
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Assure Care Contrary Experiement Glance Power Show Truth
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Heaven Holy Intend Teaching
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Greatness One Liner Self Love Wisdom
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Doubt Entertainment God Help Recognize Truth
In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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Excellence Future Mind Road Science
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Force Move Science
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Account Ignorance Learning Proceed Science

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