The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Being 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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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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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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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