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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.

Galileo Galilei

What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
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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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Admire Painting Reason relief Sculpture
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Door Key Mathematics Science
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Earth Move Round Science Sun
The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Art Establishment Growth Increase Investigation Truth
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Darkness Earth Illuminate Moon Night Place
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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Assure Care Contrary Experiement Glance Power Show Truth
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Case Heaven Look Surprise
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Book Gaze Open Philosophy Stand Writing
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
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
GALILEO GALILEI

Excellence Future Mind Road Science

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