Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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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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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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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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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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 itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.
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