Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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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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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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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 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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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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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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