I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
GALILEO GALILEIBeing 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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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