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.
GALILEO GALILEIThe deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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See now the power of truth.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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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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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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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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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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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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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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