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.
GALILEO GALILEIIn the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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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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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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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 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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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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