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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.

Galileo Galilei

What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
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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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Door Key Mathematics Science
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
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Assure Care Contrary Experiement Glance Power Show Truth
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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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
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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Accomodation Attribute Essence Name Science
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
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Language Mathemetics Nature One Liner
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Failure One Liner Reason Science Sense Step
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

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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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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