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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.

Galileo Galilei

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Experience Mankind Matter Regard Requirement Status Teaching
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Case Heaven Look Surprise
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul
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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Authority Individual Man Opinion Reason Science Spark Worth
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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Explanation Fact Hide Naked Science
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
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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Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Inside Inspirational Realize Teaching
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Advice Beginning Follow Mathematics Study
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
GALILEO GALILEI

Mathematics Number Science
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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Achievement Benefit Conception Dispute Philosophy Prove
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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Accomodation Attribute Essence Name Science
I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Doubt Entertainment God Help Recognize Truth

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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