I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
GALILEO GALILEIAll truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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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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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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Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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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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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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