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Passion is the genesis of genius.

Galileo Galilei

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
GALILEO GALILEI

Science Understand Vain
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
GALILEO GALILEI

Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
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
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
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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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
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
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Assure Care Contrary Experiement Glance Power Show Truth
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science
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
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
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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Accomodation Attribute Essence Name Science
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Act Nature
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
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
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEI

Help Himself Man Teaching Wisdom

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