Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
GALILEO GALILEIPhilosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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