We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
GALILEO GALILEITo be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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