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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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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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I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
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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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Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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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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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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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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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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See now the power of truth.
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