The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
GALILEO GALILEIThat 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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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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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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See now the power of truth.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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