Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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