The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy 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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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