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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

Galileo Galilei

I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
GALILEO GALILEI

Interest Philosophy Reason Science
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Genesis Genius One Liner Passion
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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God Language Law Mathematics Nature Writing
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Descent Earth Motion Science
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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Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Experience Mankind Matter Regard Requirement Status Teaching
You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Inside Inspirational Realize Teaching
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Contrary Except Impossible Nature Occur
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
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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Demonstrate Discussion Experiment Natural Problem Science Scripture Thinking
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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Amaze God Infinite Thankful
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Heaven Holy Intend Teaching
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
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
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.
GALILEO GALILEI

Astronomy Earth Opinion Philosophy Round Science Study Sun Universe

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