The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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