Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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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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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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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Philosophy 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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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See now the power of truth.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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