All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEIBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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