In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEIWhat greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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