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

Galileo Galilei

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Himself Ignorant Inspirational Learning
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
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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Interest Philosophy Reason Science
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Genesis Genius One Liner Passion
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
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Contrary Except Impossible Nature Occur
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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Bunch Dependent Grapes Planet Revolve Sun Universe
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
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
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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God Language Mathematics Universe Writing
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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Amaze God Infinite Thankful
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
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

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