To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
GALILEO GALILEIIn questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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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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The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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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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See now the power of truth.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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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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That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false.
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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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The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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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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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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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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