To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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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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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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