Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEIWe must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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