Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEIFacts 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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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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