Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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Nonetheless, it moves.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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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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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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