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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.

Galileo Galilei

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
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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Greatness One Liner Self Love Wisdom
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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Interest Philosophy Reason Science
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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Atheist Believe God Intellectual Obligation Reason Sense
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
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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Fear Love Night Stars
Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Dare Science
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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Believe Holy Intention Men Necessary Salve Science Spirit Truth
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
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Measure Science
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions.
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Divine Indeed Infinite Intellectual
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
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
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
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
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Account Ignorance Learning Proceed Science
Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Genesis Genius One Liner Passion
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
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Bad Intelligence Reason

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