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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

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
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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Interest Philosophy Reason Science
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Discover Help People Teaching
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
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
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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God Language Law Mathematics Nature Writing
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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Descent Earth Motion Science
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Genesis Genius One Liner Passion
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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Action Change Hide Indifference Man Nature Reason Understand
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Beautiful Body Delight Moon Sight
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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Authority Individual Man Opinion Reason Science Spark Worth
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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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
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
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Himself Ignorant Inspirational Learning

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

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