All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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