The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
GALILEO GALILEINames 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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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 does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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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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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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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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