The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEIPassion is the genesis of genius.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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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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