Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
GALILEO GALILEII 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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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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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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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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