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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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Consideration Fools Reason Vanity
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes. I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written.
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Book Eyes Language Philosophy Understand Universe Writing
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Fear Love Night Stars
Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Contradict One Liner Truth
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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God Language Law Mathematics Nature Writing
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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Action Change Hide Indifference Man Nature Reason Understand
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
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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Heaven Holy Intend Teaching
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
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 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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Bunch Dependent Grapes Planet Revolve Sun Universe
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Inside Inspirational Realize Teaching
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.
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Acting Human Mind Nature Remember
You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
GALILEO GALILEI

Force Move Science

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