Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEIThere are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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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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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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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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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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