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.
GALILEO GALILEIIf 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.
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Nature 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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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See now the power of truth.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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