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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Galileo Galilei

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Himself Ignorant Inspirational Learning
In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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Excellence Future Mind Road Science
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
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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God Infinite Marvelous Please Thanful
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Account Ignorance Learning Proceed Science
Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Language Mathemetics Nature One Liner
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
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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Astronomy Earth Opinion Philosophy Round Science Study Sun Universe
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science
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
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
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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Interest Philosophy Reason Science
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 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

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