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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

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
GALILEO GALILEI

Mathematics Number Science
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Explanation Fact Hide Naked Science
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul
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 sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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Bunch Dependent Grapes Planet Revolve Sun Universe
The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
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 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
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Book Gaze Open Philosophy Stand Writing
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 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
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
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
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.
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Darkness Earth Illuminate Moon Night Place
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
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science

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

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