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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.

Galileo Galilei

Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Language Mathemetics Nature One Liner
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Authority Humble Individual Reason Science Worth
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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God Infinite Marvelous Please Thanful
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
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Descent Earth Motion Science
Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Contrary Except Impossible Nature Occur
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul
The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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Darkness Earth exchange Gloom Illuminate Moon Night Receive
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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Admire Painting Reason relief Sculpture
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
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Doubt Entertainment God Help Recognize Truth
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Demonstrate Discussion Experiment Natural Problem Science Scripture Thinking
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

The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.

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