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.
GALILEO GALILEIThe 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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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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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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The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
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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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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.
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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 deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them.
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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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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.
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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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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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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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