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.
GALILEO GALILEII’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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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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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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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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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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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
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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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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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