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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

Galileo Galilei

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Himself Ignorant Inspirational Learning
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
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
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Language Mathemetics Nature One Liner
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
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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Aware Knowledge Teaching
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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Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
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
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
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
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Advice Beginning Follow Mathematics Study
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth

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