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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.

Galileo Galilei

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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God Infinite Marvelous Please Thanful
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
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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Descent Earth Motion Science
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
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
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
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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Authority Individual Man Opinion Reason Science Spark Worth
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
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Genesis Genius One Liner Passion
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Fear Love Night Stars
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
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Darkness Earth Illuminate Moon Night Place
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
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Alcohol Sunlight Togetherness Water Wine
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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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive

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