Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
GALILEO GALILEINature is written in mathematical language.
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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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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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In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
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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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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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It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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I entertain no doubts as to the truth of the transfinites, which I have recognized with God’s help.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Two truths cannot contradict one another.
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Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
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