The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEIBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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See now the power of truth.
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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 does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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