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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Galileo Galilei

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.
GALILEO GALILEI

Excellence Future Mind Road Science
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEI

Science Understand Vain
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Mathematics Number Science
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Door Key Mathematics Science
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
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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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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Admire Painting Reason relief Sculpture
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
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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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Genesis Genius One Liner Passion
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEI

Discover Humanity Progress Science
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Act Nature
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Contrary Except Impossible Nature Occur
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEI

Discover Easy Point Truth Understand

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