By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
More Galileo Galilei Quotes
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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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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See now the power of truth.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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