See now the power of truth.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy 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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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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