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.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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See now the power of truth.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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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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