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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

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
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Assure Care Contrary Experiement Glance Power Show Truth
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
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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Modest Statement Wise
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Advice Beginning Follow Mathematics Study
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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Earth Move Round Science Sun
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
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
Nonetheless, it moves.
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One Liner Science
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
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Mathematics Number Science
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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Amaze God Infinite Thankful
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
GALILEO GALILEI

Discover Easy Point Truth Understand

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