Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
GALILEO GALILEIMeasure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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