In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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