Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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See now the power of truth.
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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