Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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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 language in which God has written the universe.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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