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

Galileo Galilei

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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Deny Maintain Principle Science Truth
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
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
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
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
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
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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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
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
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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God Heaven Path
In 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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Authority Individual Man Opinion Reason Science Spark Worth
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
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Believe Harm Prove Science Soul
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
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare 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
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible.
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Descent Earth Motion Science
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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Greatness Inspiratioal One Liner Self Love Wisdom

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