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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?

Galileo Galilei

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Advice Beginning Follow Mathematics Study
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Discover Easy Point Truth Understand
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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God Language Mathematics Universe Writing
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
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
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Alcohol Sunlight Togetherness Water Wine
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Force Move Science
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Believe Holy Intention Men Necessary Salve Science Spirit Truth
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
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
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
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
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
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
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
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth

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