Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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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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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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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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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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