I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
GALILEO GALILEIIn time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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 greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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See now the power of truth.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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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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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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