Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
GALILEO GALILEIIf I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with 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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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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