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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.

Galileo Galilei

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Science Stars Togetherness Universe
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
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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Explanation Fact Hide Naked Science
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Himself Ignorant Inspirational Learning
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Discover Help People Teaching
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Discover Easy Point Truth Understand
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Greatness One Liner Self Love Wisdom
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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Amaze God Infinite Thankful
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Account Ignorance Learning Proceed Science
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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God Infinite Marvelous Please Thanful

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