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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

Galileo Galilei

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
In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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Discover Humanity Progress Science
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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Excellence Future Mind Road 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
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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Explanation Fact Hide Naked Science
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Language Mathemetics Nature One Liner
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Door Key Mathematics Science
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Discover Easy Point Truth Understand
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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Case Heaven Look Surprise
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Science Stars Togetherness Universe
I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.
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Interest Philosophy Reason Science
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
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
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
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science

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