If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
GALILEO GALILEIIt is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.
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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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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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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 Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold “precious,” and earth and soil “base”?
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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