All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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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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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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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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 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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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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