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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Greatness One Liner Self Love Wisdom
Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Earth Move Round Science Sun
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Account Ignorance Learning Proceed Science
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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Amaze God Infinite Thankful
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
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Force Move Science
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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Bunch Dependent Grapes Planet Revolve Sun Universe
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Discover Help People Teaching
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Interest Philosophy Reason Science
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.
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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Book Gaze Open Philosophy Stand Writing
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Genesis Genius One Liner Passion
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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Action Change Hide Indifference Man Nature Reason Understand
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Believe Holy Intention Men Necessary Salve Science Spirit Truth
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Failure One Liner Reason Science Sense Step
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Book Gaze Open Philosophy Stand Writing
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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Earth Imagination Science Stupidity
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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Darkness Earth Illuminate Moon Night Place
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
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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God Language Law Mathematics Nature Writing

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