Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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