All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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 vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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