Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEIThe sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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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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See now the power of truth.
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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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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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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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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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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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