Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
GALILEO GALILEIIf I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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