I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEIIn 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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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