The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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