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.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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