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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

Galileo Galilei

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Discover Easy Point Truth Understand
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
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Force Move Science
Nonetheless, it moves.
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One Liner Science
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
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 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
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Mathematics Number 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
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
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 Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
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
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
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
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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Darkness Earth Illuminate Moon Night Place

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