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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.

Galileo Galilei

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Door Key Mathematics Science
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Act Nature
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
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
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
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
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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Action Change Hide Indifference Man Nature Reason Understand
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
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
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Case Heaven Look Surprise
The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Art Establishment Growth Increase Investigation Truth
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Authority Humble Individual Reason Science Worth
In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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Discover Humanity Progress Science
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Beautiful Body Delight Moon Sight

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