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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.

Galileo Galilei

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEI

Experience Mankind Matter Regard Requirement Status Teaching
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
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Advice Beginning Follow Mathematics Study
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Explanation Fact Hide Naked Science
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
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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God Infinite Marvelous Please Thanful
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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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Alcohol Sunlight Togetherness Water Wine
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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Demonstrate Discussion Experiment Natural Problem Science Scripture Thinking
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Science Stars Togetherness Universe
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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Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
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.
GALILEO GALILEI

Believe Holy Intention Men Necessary Salve Science Spirit Truth

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