Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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 vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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