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 GALILEIIn 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 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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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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 give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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