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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 greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Greatness One Liner Self Love Wisdom
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Failure One Liner Reason Science Sense Step
Nature does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.
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Act Nature
In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity.
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Discover Humanity Progress Science
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Genesis Genius One Liner Passion
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
Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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Absolute Holy Lie Scripture Truth
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
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
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Explanation Fact Hide Naked Science
The increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.
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Art Establishment Growth Increase Investigation Truth
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
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Doctrine God Nature Reveal Work
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
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
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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Admire Painting Reason relief Sculpture
I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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Doubt Entertainment God Help Recognize Truth
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Fear Love Night Stars
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
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Science Stars Togetherness Universe
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason
See now the power of truth.
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Justice One Liner Power Science Truth
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
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
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
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
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Himself Ignorant Inspirational Learning
The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Science Understand Vain
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

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