Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
GALILEO GALILEIWe 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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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