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

Galileo Galilei

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Door Key Mathematics Science
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
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Himself Ignorant Inspirational Learning
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science
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
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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Amaze God Infinite Thankful
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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Explanation Fact Hide Naked Science
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
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
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
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Discover Help People Teaching
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Case Heaven Look Surprise
In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Astronomy Earth Opinion Philosophy Round Science Study Sun Universe
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
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

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